Date: 04 Sep 2002 15:35:25 +1000 From: Crispin Bennett <crispin@crisweb.webcentral.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Login not accepting any input from keyboard Message-ID: <1031117726.230.6.camel@jupiter> In-Reply-To: <3D751C9B.28364.4A6C4D9A@localhost> References: <3D751C9B.28364.4A6C4D9A@localhost>
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It seems there was a different cause in my instance -- not gdm, but a script placed by the vmware2 port in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. Remove this (or deinstall the port), and my problem went away. I couldn't see anything obvious in the script that would have caused this (nothing gdm-related). Odd. On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 13:33, Corey Snow wrote: > On 3 Sep 2002, at 21:23, 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. > > I had a similar problem recently, and it too appeared with no > apparent cause. > > The solution (and the reason) I discovered was that gdm was being > started twice- once as a shell script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d and once > from etc/ttys. > > I'd recommend trying the following: Boot into single-user mode, mount > your various volumes and make sure that if there's a script to start > gdm in /usr/local/etc/rc.d that you chmod 644 it. The edit /etc/ttys > and be sure that ttyv8 reads as follows: > > ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/gdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure > > I make no promises that this will work; however, it did work for me. > > Good luck- > > Corey > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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