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Date:      Thu, 27 Jan 2000 15:02:28 -0700
From:      "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@pinyon.org>
To:        Mike Heffner <spock@techfour.net>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>, rcarter@pinyon.org
Subject:   Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT 
Message-ID:  <20000127220228.E0E6270@pinyon.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Mike Heffner <mheffner@mailandnews.com>  of "Thu, 27 Jan 2000 16:54:50 EST." <XFMail.20000127165450.mheffner@mailandnews.com> 

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%On 27-Jan-2000 Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
%  | 
%  |> 3. On the first reboot after installing, the keyboard was in a funny
%  |> state.
%  | 
%  | Urk, can't reproduce it.  I need a reproducible sequence of operations
%  | before we'll have any hope of tackling this one.
%  | 
%  |> Control-alt-del definitely didn't work, so I had to power off and
%  |> reboot.  This hasn't repeated itself.
%  | 
%  | Same here.
%  | 
%
%I seem to have this problem occasionaly, the keyboard keymap gets all screwed
%up somehow, and the only way to get out is to hit the reset button. But I've
%been having the problem for a long time, and with different boxes. It happens
%about every 1 out of 15 reboots but randomly. I haven't been able to connect
%it to any event or anything, but I notice that hitting keys during boot can
%increase the probability of it occurring, but again, nothing reproducible.

Right.  I've seen this when I hit Enter rapidly twice at the first
loader prompt.  Doesn't ever happen if I wait for the second
prompt.

Russell



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%Mike Heffner <spock@techfour.net>
%Fredericksburg, VA
%ICQ# 882073
%Date: 27-Jan-2000   Time: 16:47:01
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