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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!csus.edu!netcom.com!netcom5!ceb From: ceb@netcom5.netcom.com (Buckley) Subject: Re: [Q] keyboards locks in X, console hickups in no X In-Reply-To: deraadt@fsa.ca's message of Wed, 8 Sep 1993 17:57:08 GMT Message-ID: <CEB.93Sep11143806@netcom5.netcom.com> Sender: ceb@netcom.com (Buckley) Organization: Mauto Enterprises References: <1993Sep6.131323.23825@kth.se> <MYCROFT.93Sep6110554@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <26l0nj$jk6@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <DERAADT.93Sep8105708@newt.fsa.ca> Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1993 22:38:06 GMT Lines: 38 In article <DERAADT.93Sep8105708@newt.fsa.ca> deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt) writes: Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions From: deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt) In article <26l0nj$jk6@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: > >There is a patch in FreeBSD ostensibly to fix this, but it does not > >have the desired effect. > > I'm not sure what you are driving at with that last sentence, since > FreeBSD doesn't have the hanging console bug. Granted, the fix is > non-optimal, but it works until something better comes along. For one thing, it calls the device driver XXclose() function twice when it should only be called once. I'm sure Charles will point out other things it does wrong. The double call is as may be, but FreeBSD definitely does have a hanging console bug. I've been running it for a week or so, and whenever I leave the box on overnight, there's a good chance I will come back the next day and find the console hung. Usually I will leave Xfree running, so my hypothesis is that something involved with cron is the culprit, and I've added kbd_mode -u hacks to the end of my cron scripts to see if that gets it. But maybe the above (someqhat astringent) discussion arises from the fact that the "hack" mentioned only fixes one aspect of the problem. If I might be enlightened as to the nature of the problem, I might be able to find it more quickly. Thanks. -- --