From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 13 14:16:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA18888 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 14:16:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.181]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA18880 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 14:16:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from emu.fsl.noaa.gov (kelly@emu.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.60.32]) by gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA23287; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 21:16:40 GMT Message-Id: <199606132116.VAA23287@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> Received: by emu.fsl.noaa.gov (1.40.112.3/16.2) id AA023370599; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 15:16:39 -0600 Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 15:16:39 -0600 From: Sean Kelly To: kline@tera.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199606132048.NAA05779@athena.tera.com> (message from Gary Kline on Thu, 13 Jun 1996 13:48:46 -0700 (PDT)) Subject: Re: still hanging up... Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Gary" == Gary Kline writes: Gary> Recently (past few weeks, max), when I am working Gary> remote and connected via user-ppp, my keyboard will Gary> lock up. The mouse moves the curson and things X-Window Gary> events happen, but the keyboard is Dead. Is there any chance you're running Netscape while this is happening? I've experienced some problems with keyboard focus and Netscape. Apparently, Netscape refuses to give up the keyboard focus after interacting with some of its dialogs or with text entry fields on a page, particularly after pasting text into a field with button 2. Gary> Ihad thought that this was a file system problem, Gary> especially when /var seems to always be trashed upon Gary> power-cycling. Probably normal for /var, and probably nothing to worry about ... so you lose a log file, big deal. To avoid power cycling, make yourself a little Tcl/Tk widget that'll shutdown the system cleanly when pressed. Gary> Usually after I clean the filesystems by doing several Gary> fsck's, then I can login via ppp and have no problem. Gary> An hour or so ago it happened again, with the fs's Gary> _clean_. Then minutes ago, it happened yet again. Gary> Anybody have any clues? To see if the keyboard is actually dead, try switching from your X window session to another virtual terminal ... use CTRL, ALT, and one of the Function keys all at the same time. -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/