From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 27 12:32:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 179A214BEE for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 12:32:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA03593; Thu, 27 May 1999 12:31:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 12:31:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Ritwik Bhattacharya Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: system crash after upgrade to 2.2.8 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message