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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!headwall.Stanford.EDU!CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU!Tamuz.Stanford.EDU!xavier From: xavier@Theory.Stanford.EDU (Xavier Leroy) Subject: newsyslog freezes the keyboard Message-ID: <1993Oct13.232551.26343@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, California, USA Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1993 23:25:51 GMT Lines: 23 Configuration: NetBSD 0.9, XFree 1.3. I'm experiencing the following strange behavior: whenever newsyslog rotates a log file, the keyboard freezes (all keypresses are ignored). More details: - This happens only under X (XFree 1.3). - Most of the time, the mouse remains active. - Doing kbd_mode -u (from a twm menu entry!) does not bring the keyboard back to its normal state. - This happens only when newsyslog actually rotates a log file (I've tried with either /var/adm/messages or /var/adm), but not when it decides there is nothing to do. Can anyone suggest an explanation or fix? Thanks, - Xavier Leroy