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Date:      Thu, 22 Jul 1999 09:05:04 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Richard Scheper <scheper@beast.toad.net>
To:        freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SMP + XDM = keyboard lockup 
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.9907220855560.30858-100000@beast.toad.net>
In-Reply-To: <199907221246.VAA18075@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>

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On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote:

> 
> It appears that xdm and getty is fighting for keyboard input.  Try
> 
> 	(sleep 60; /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm) &
> 
> in /etc/rc.local.
> 
> Kazu
> 

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll try it. I wonder why this problem is
peculiar to a SMP enabled kernel? Is it because xdm and getty are
possibly started on different processors? What difference sould running
xdm on the background make? The problem seems to occur when /etc/rc.local
completes execution whether or not xdm is executed from rc.local. That is,
I tried setting up /etc/ttys as

tyv3 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure

with an empty /etc/rc.local and still got the lockup. Wouldn't that setup
avoid the getty conflict? I am admittedly confused..

-Rich



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