Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 15:22:22 +1000 From: Malcolm Fitzgerald <mfitzgerald@pacific.net.au> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Regain control of keyboard Message-ID: <cd7edd15a2d00b1bd355f995dc68358d@pacific.net.au> In-Reply-To: <443CFC84.3050206@tca-cable-connector.com> References: <b486f76bf790aa702c656fc3af65fa32@pacific.net.au> <443CFC84.3050206@tca-cable-connector.com>
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> Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: >> Some days ago I type "portupgrade -a" on a machine which had just got >> a clean install of FreeBSD v6, with gnome, kde, sound, graphics, etc. >> In other words, a desktop plaything. >> >> Every other hour or so process would stop at on options screen and >> wait for my input. Recently it has stopped accepting input from the >> keyboard. The mouse is still active. >> >> How do I get my keyboard working again? >> On 12/04/2006, at 11:11 PM, David Schulz wrote: > i have had the exact same thing when running portupgrade -ra on my > freebsd 6.0 amd64, but nothing would help except to power reboot the > computer. i tried pluggin in and out the usb keyboard, tried a ps2 > keyboard. the only thing i couldnt try if i can connect to it still > via ssh. if i couldnt, i would say the machine was frozen. Hmmm, I'm not ready to reboot yet, I want to let the process finish. I can get past the dialogs using cut/paste into the shell with the mouse and klipper. thanks for sharing malcolm
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