From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 3 20:36:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8734D37B400 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 20:36:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from valis.olywa.net (valis.olywa.net [216.173.192.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 170BF43E65 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 20:36:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from corey@snowpoint.com) Received: from intrepid.snowpoint.com ([216.173.213.173]) by valis.olywa.net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-56662U5000L500S0V35) with ESMTP id net; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 20:36:31 -0700 Received: from ([216.173.213.170]) by intrepid.snowpoint.com (Merak 4.4.2) with SMTP id HUB36795; Tue, 03 Sep 2002 20:30:55 -0700 From: "Corey Snow" To: "Crispin Bennett" Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 20:33:31 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Login not accepting any input from keyboard Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <3D751C9B.28364.4A6C4D9A@localhost> In-reply-to: <000001c2533c$5b065500$0a00a8c0@jupiter> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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