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Date:      Thu, 27 May 1999 12:31:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Ritwik Bhattacharya <ritwik@dbrci.blr.daimlerbenz.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: system crash after upgrade to 2.2.8
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905271230280.16577-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905261610580.390-100000@hamsadhwani.dbrci.blr.daimlerbenz.com>

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On Wed, 26 May 1999, Ritwik Bhattacharya wrote:

> I recently ( yesterday ) upgraded my PC from 2.2.5 to 2.2.8, via sources.
> Today, all of a sudden, my system hung, ie, I could do nothing from the
> console. I couldn't even switch to terminal mode ( Ctl-Alt-F1 ). My
> keyboard was dead. But I could telnet from another machine and reboot
> the system cleanly. I had been running xdm , fvwm95, and tkman only. I
> know this is not a lot to go on, but it had NEVER happened with 2.2.5,
> which is why I thought I should post it.

Perhaps the system keyboard controller crashed?  Did unplugging and
replugging the keyboard clear it?

We have a Micron that's famous for crashing the PS/2 kbd/mouse controller.

Doug White                               
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