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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!news.byu.edu!cwis.isu.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) Subject: Re: [NetBSD 0.8] Various and sundry (but not too bad) Message-ID: <1993Jun4.230402.370@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT) References: <DRG.93Jun4092415@candidus.ma30.bull.com> <1993Jun4.141708.68978@cc.usu.edu> Date: Fri, 4 Jun 93 23:04:02 GMT Lines: 20 In article <1993Jun4.141708.68978@cc.usu.edu> ivie@cc.usu.edu writes: >In article <DRG.93Jun4092415@candidus.ma30.bull.com>, drg@candidus.ma30.bull.com (Daniel R. Guilderson) writes: >> o My system reboots spontaneously whenever it is halted. >> 386bsd used to wait for me to hit a key. > >I've only seen it on machines running X-windows. The machine in my office, >for instance, behaves correctly if it's not running X-windows but reboots >on halt if X-windows was running. This is beause the keyboard is in a strange mode; the read is seen as a state poll, and thus returns immediately instead of waiting for the user. Stop X before you shutdown. Terry Lambert terry@icarus.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.