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Date:      Fri, 3 Jan 2003 11:16:57 -0800 (PST)
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        Trent Nelson <trent@arpa.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: System freeze running -current
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0301031114110.98827-100000@root.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030103151234.GA21140@arpa.com>

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On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Trent Nelson wrote:
>     I've experienced -current lock up in exactly the same way twice now;
>     once with 5.0-RC2, and just now, with sources from 30th December.
>     
>     The system in question is a Sharp PC-AR50 laptop.  In both instances 
>     the system was idle and I was editing a file in vim on ttyv0.  Both
>     systems exhibited the following symptoms:
> 
>   1.  Able to switch terminals using alt-F1..F8, but that's it, I'm un-
>       able to type anything else (keyboard doesn't respond to letters,
>       numbers, but capslock and numlock still turn on lights).
>   2.  Responds to pings from other systems on the network.

Sounds like an atkbd or syscons problem.  Did you suspend the laptop and
resume before this happens?  How does "unset acpi_load" at the boot prompt
change things?

-Nate


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