From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 3 4:38:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDF9837B400 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 04:38:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.airnet.com.au (mail.airnet.com.au [202.174.32.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6A5D343E4A for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 04:38:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alexg@airnet.com.au) Received: (qmail 11106 invoked from network); 3 Sep 2002 11:38:08 -0000 Received: from ppp74.ar3.adl1.airnet.com.au (HELO Fusion) (202.174.33.74) by mail.airnet.com.au with SMTP; 3 Sep 2002 11:38:08 -0000 Received: from Fusion (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Fusion (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g83Bc5YE052644; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 21:08:06 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from alexg@airnet.com.au) Received: from localhost (alexg@localhost) by Fusion (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g83Bc22F052641; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 21:08:03 +0930 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: Fusion: alexg owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 21:07:40 +0930 (CST) From: Alex Gontcharov X-X-Sender: alexg@Fusion To: Crispin Bennett Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Login not accepting any input from keyboard In-Reply-To: <000001c2533c$5b065500$0a00a8c0@jupiter> Message-ID: <20020903210615.Q52632-100000@Fusion> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 You can try to boot the system in single user mode boot -s On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Crispin Bennett wrote: > Hi all, > > A terrible problem! I've been running FreeBSD 4.6.2 release on my laptop > for the past couple of weeks. Suddenly I'm hit with a problem that I'm > hoping isn't going to prove terminal to my FreeBSD experiment: the gdm > login accepts no input from the keyboard. I can't kill X > (ctrl-alt-bkspace) because that doesn't work either. The machine clearly > isn't frozen, as mouse input works -- I can get the gdm menus, from > which I can reboot the machine etc. Also, oddly, I can reboot with > ctrl-alt-delete. > > The obvious thing to do would be to SSH in to investigate, but > unfortunately because it's a laptop and thus only intermittently > connected to a network, I've been starting dhclient manually. So I > appear to be stuck. > > The *only* thing of significance that I knowingly did/changed in my last > session was 'make install' sysutils/portupgrade. > > So I appear to be stuck. Not sure even what info is of relevance here -- > my setup involves gdm being run from startup, and I have gnome2 > installed. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > > Cris Bennett. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQE9dJ8ZMKTsJK5mHkARAqYkAJ9jPlW/W04WujJmhibHZSqLh4wz6QCfd63/ YpFzw7KFfs2YdoHQmbVfITE= =ICiT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message