Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 21:07:40 +0930 (CST) From: Alex Gontcharov <alexg@airnet.com.au> To: Crispin Bennett <crispin@crisweb.webcentral.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Login not accepting any input from keyboard Message-ID: <20020903210615.Q52632-100000@Fusion> In-Reply-To: <000001c2533c$5b065500$0a00a8c0@jupiter>
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-----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
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