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From: junki@lut.fi (Juha Nurmela)
Subject: Re: Patches 00602 & 00603
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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1993 21:42:29 GMT
References: <g89r4222.730200482@kudu> <g89r4222.730223021@kudu>
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In article <g89r4222.730223021@kudu>, g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) writes:
|> In <g89r4222.730200482@kudu> g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) writes:
|>
....
|>
|> The problem still remains that the machine in question still
|> hangs. I have isolated the problem slightly better though - It's
|> just the console that hangs. I can still telnet into the
|> machine. It would appear that the keyboard has hung. During
|> bootup the numlock, capslock and scrolllock leds go on. They
|> won't toggle if you hit the relevant keys. When the machine gets
|> to the login prompt it just hangs.
|>
|> BTW - a kernel compiled using pk0.2 is fine!
|>
|> Any suggestions?
|>
....
I got over this by poking the console in the end of /etc/rc.
It happened on a Olivetti SX, not with my own Taiwanese clone.
Try adding echo xyz > /dev/console in the end of rc.
You can verify this first by echoing something to console from a telnet
session.
Some time ago we had a similar problem with RS/6000's (no, I don't like em:).
stty 0 < /dev/console helped there.
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