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Date:      Thu, 22 Jul 1999 15:16:20 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Richard Scheper <scheper@beast.toad.net>
To:        freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SMP + XDM = keyboard lockup
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.9907221512040.12148-100000@beast.toad.net>
In-Reply-To: <199907221839.LAA10550@usr05.primenet.com>

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Actually, I don't have another way in, just the console. If I cause the
lockup I have no recourse but to turn the computer off. It makes it tough
to get info, I know. I never see any error messages in /var/log/messages

-Rich
 
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Terry Lambert wrote:

> 
> Since he appears to have a way in, other than the console, he
> should:
> 
> 1)	Cause the lockup
> 
> 2)	Go in and do a 'ps' to see if conflicting processes are
> 	running
> 
> 3)	Force a console switch via escape sequence to a console
> 	vty not currently in use.  This should result in the X
> 	server disengaging, and the input devices being detached
> 	and reattached to the new vty, if the problem is merely
> 	a race.
> 
> Also, if both terminals are reading input, as has been posited,
> a ctrl-alt-F2 should still result in a console switch, regardless
> of who takes the keypress event (ctrl and alt are modifiers, so
> only the F2 keycode should be relevent).
> 
> 
> 					Terry Lambert
> 					terry@lambert.org
> ---
> Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> or previous employers.
> 



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