Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 17:00:55 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Richard Scheper <scheper@beast.toad.net>, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP + XDM = keyboard lockup Message-ID: <v04011701b3bd36616a0b@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9907221512040.12148-100000@beast.toad.net> References: <199907221839.LAA10550@usr05.primenet.com>
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At 3:16 PM -0400 7/22/99, Richard Scheper wrote: > 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 Early in the login process, start some dumb script which just loops around dumping the output of 'ps' into some file (with a 'sleep' in the loop, of course!). If you're a bit more daring, you could also have this other script kill off your xdm task after a few minutes, which should give you control back. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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