Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 15:21:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: still hanging up... Message-ID: <199606132221.PAA06142@athena.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <199606132116.VAA23287@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> from Sean Kelly at "Jun 13, 96 03:16:39 pm"
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According to Sean Kelly: > >>>>> "Gary" == Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> writes: > > Gary> Recently (past few weeks, max), when I am working > Gary> remote and connected via user-ppp, my keyboard will > Gary> lock up. The mouse moves the curson and things X-Window > Gary> events happen, but the keyboard is Dead. > > Is there any chance you're running Netscape while this is happening? > I've experienced some problems with keyboard focus and Netscape. > Apparently, Netscape refuses to give up the keyboard focus after > interacting with some of its dialogs or with text entry fields on a > page, particularly after pasting text into a field with button 2. No, not using Netscape. Usually typing in mail/elm on the remote site, my workstation, when things lock up. Not always, but often. > > Gary> Ihad thought that this was a file system problem, > Gary> especially when /var seems to always be trashed upon > Gary> power-cycling. > > Probably normal for /var, and probably nothing to worry about ... so > you lose a log file, big deal. > > To avoid power cycling, make yourself a little Tcl/Tk widget that'll > shutdown the system cleanly when pressed. I know zip about tcl.... am a real newbie re X-hacking. That's a good idea: a simple X-app that would do a shutdown. Point-and-click shutdown! ha... > Gary> Usually after I clean the filesystems by doing several > Gary> fsck's, then I can login via ppp and have no problem. > Gary> An hour or so ago it happened again, with the fs's > Gary> _clean_. Then minutes ago, it happened yet again. > > Gary> Anybody have any clues? > > To see if the keyboard is actually dead, try switching from your X > window session to another virtual terminal ... use CTRL, ALT, and one > of the Function keys all at the same time. > Pretty sure that I tried *everything* when this locking happened last month. I tried every key, tried switching terms, tried scores of C-A-D's. Zero. Finally went over and power-cycled. Anybody think it could be that my /usr fs is nearing its over-full lim? qv: p7 15:08 <tao> [9] df ~/bin Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/sd0a 155144 41750 100982 29% / /dev/sd0s1e 1089860 921342 81328 92% /usr /dev/sd0s1f 310322 105206 180290 37% /var /dev/sd0s1g 341908 234086 80468 74% /usr/local procfs 8 8 0 100% /proc /dev/cd0a 268108 268108 0 100% /cdrom I do need another GB disk, but waiting to buy a 2.1.5 CD and upgrade to the new release before I get the drive. Anybody else?? gary
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