Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 12:21:12 -0500 From: Jim Lowe <james@miller.cs.uwm.edu> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, wangel@wgrobez1.remote.louisville.edu Subject: Re: locking up Message-ID: <199608061721.MAA23320@miller.cs.uwm.edu>
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> From: Gary Roberts <wangel@wgrobez1.remote.louisville.edu> > 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 <bde@zeta.org.au> > 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. > > Bruce >
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