From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 3 22:35:32 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 406E137B400 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 22:35:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bne004se.server-mail.com (bne004se.server-mail.com [203.147.241.115]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CE58343E6E for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 22:35:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crispin@crisweb.webcentral.com.au) Received: (qmail 1781 invoked from network); 4 Sep 2002 05:35:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dev-38.wic.webcentral.com.au) (192.168.21.38) by bne004se.server-mail.com with SMTP; 4 Sep 2002 05:35:27 -0000 Subject: Re: Login not accepting any input from keyboard From: Crispin Bennett To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3D751C9B.28364.4A6C4D9A@localhost> References: <3D751C9B.28364.4A6C4D9A@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 04 Sep 2002 15:35:25 +1000 Message-Id: <1031117726.230.6.camel@jupiter> Mime-Version: 1.0 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 It seems there was a different cause in my instance -- not gdm, but a script placed by the vmware2 port in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. Remove this (or deinstall the port), and my problem went away. I couldn't see anything obvious in the script that would have caused this (nothing gdm-related). Odd. On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 13:33, Corey Snow wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message