From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Jul 22 18:37:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E352414C8D for ; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 18:36:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA23066; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 18:36:46 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd023041; Thu Jul 22 18:36:44 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA07637; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 18:36:44 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199907230136.SAA07637@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: SMP + XDM = keyboard lockup To: drosih@rpi.edu (Garance A Drosihn) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 01:36:43 +0000 (GMT) Cc: scheper@beast.toad.net, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Garance A Drosihn" at Jul 22, 99 05:00:55 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > At 3:16 PM -0400 7/22/99, Richard Scheper wrote: > > Actually, I don't have another way in, just the console. If I > > cause the lockup I have no recourse but to turn the computer > > off. It makes it tough to get info, I know. I never see any > > error messages in /var/log/messages > > Early in the login process, start some dumb script which just > loops around dumping the output of 'ps' into some file (with > a 'sleep' in the loop, of course!). And a "sync" or three before the sleep, in case you have to BRS it. > If you're a bit more > daring, you could also have this other script kill off your > xdm task after a few minutes, which should give you control > back. Depending on the actual source of the lockup... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message