From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 12 04:21:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA14309 for current-outgoing; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 04:21:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from minnow.render.com (render.demon.co.uk [158.152.30.118]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA14299 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 04:21:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from minnow.render.com (minnow.render.com [193.195.178.1]) by minnow.render.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA07492; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 12:24:19 +0100 Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 12:24:19 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Jim Lowe cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, wangel@wgrobez1.remote.louisville.edu Subject: Re: locking up In-Reply-To: <199608061721.MAA23320@miller.cs.uwm.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Jim Lowe wrote: > > From: Gary Roberts > > 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 > > 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 :-(. -- Doug Rabson, Microsoft RenderMorphics Ltd. Mail: dfr@render.com Phone: +44 171 734 3761 FAX: +44 171 734 6426