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From: Malcolm Fitzgerald <mfitzgerald@pacific.net.au>
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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?

A day later and the machine is accepting input from the keyboard. Still 
waiting for the whole process to finish.

malcolm