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Date:      Fri, 6 Oct 2000 16:59:08 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>
To:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   curious interaction between kdm and snmpd on startup
Message-ID:  <14814.15644.780542.774320@onceler.kciLink.com>

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I run kdm from my /etc/rc.local script to get nice graphical login to
KDE.

Recently I added ucd-snmp to this system.  Today I did a reboot after
testing the vmware "vmnet" module which happened to lock up my kernel.

Upon reboot, the keyboard within X under the kdm session was
non-responsive to most keystrokes.  The CTRL-ALT-Fn sequence beeped at
me execpt for F2, which didn't do anything.  CAPS LOCK worked, as did
NUMLOCK.  The regular keys did nothing.  All I could do was
CTRL-ALT-DEL to get out of it.

Disabling kdm from the boot and running it manually after the rest of
the system came up worked fine.

Finally, I noticed that during a boot-up, right after snmpd was
started, the screen mode switched to X.  Not until after I hit the
C-A-D reboot sequence did the remainder of the text from the boot
appear.

If I disable snmpd from the boot sequence, I briefly see a flash of a
login prompt before the X screen switch, and everything works fine.

Is there some interaction going on with the startup scripts and snmpd
and kdm?  Any ideas on how to work around this other than manually
running snmpd after I boot up?

Thanks.

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Vivek Khera, Ph.D.                Khera Communications, Inc.
Internet: khera@kciLink.com       Rockville, MD       +1-301-545-6996
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