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Date:      Mon, 12 Aug 1996 12:24:19 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@render.com>
To:        Jim Lowe <james@miller.cs.uwm.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, wangel@wgrobez1.remote.louisville.edu
Subject:   Re: locking up
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.960812122157.10082W-100000@minnow.render.com>
In-Reply-To: <199608061721.MAA23320@miller.cs.uwm.edu>

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On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Jim Lowe wrote:

> > From: Gary Roberts <wangel@wgrobez1.remote.louisville.edu>
> > To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
> > Subject: locking up
> > 
> > Sometimes, at no predetermined time, without warning, when switching VC's,
> > I'll lock up. FreeBSD doesn't lockup just the keyboard, and I can only fix
> > it by rebooting.
> > 
> 
> A while ago Bruce Evans had posted this, if you run it, it
> unlocks the keyboard.  I don't know why this happens or why
> it hasn't been fixed.  The way I run it is to remote login
> from some other machine.
> 
> 	-Jim
> 
> > Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 23:52:48 +1100
> > From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
> > Message-Id: <199602201252.XAA23329@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
> > To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de
> > Subject: Re: Keyboard lockout on 2.x.x
> > 
> > To fix it if you can log in as root from another host, try
> > 
> > 	echo "set ipending=2" | gdb -k -w /kernel /dev/mem
> > 
> > This fakes a keyboard interrupt.

This happens to me whenever I break into DDB.  The ipending thing fixes
it.  I guess this motherboard manages to misplace the keyboard interrupt
while I am in the debugger :-(.

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