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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!info.curtin.edu.au!cproto From: cproto@cs.curtin.edu.au (Computer Protocol) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: NetBSD-0.9: keyboard hangs under heavy system load Date: 6 Sep 93 23:45:00 GMT Organization: Curtin University of Technology Lines: 35 Message-ID: <cproto.747359100@marsh> References: <cproto.747289640@marsh> NNTP-Posting-Host: marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au Keywords: keyboad hangs NetBSD cproto@cs.curtin.edu.au (Computer Protocol) writes: [stuff deleted] >started to do some other work. After a few ps -ax, df, ls -l and >tail World.log the keyboard suddenly hung. The make still continued >so I logged in from a terminal and a few hours later after make >finished I rebooted and all was well. The problem happened a second time >running xterm. Again a reboot fixed it. Any ideas ??? I send this for Pierre who hasn't got NEWS access: I have the same problem. However, I'm not sure it's because of heavy system load. For me, it always happens when cron runs newsyslog every hour, but not every time. I did not manage to find out exactly in what circonstances it occured. Under X11, the keyboard is locked but I can use the mouse to exit X (when under twm). When I am back in text mode, I can type commands but have messages "TIOCSPGRP: errno = 25" or something similar. I have to log out and log in again, and the problem is fixed. Anyway I don't need to reboot. It is a problem of controlling terminal ; I have a terminal on com1 and next time it will happen I will try to find out from the terminal what happened to the controlling terminal on the console. If you can, check if your keyboard locks occur at the beginning of the hour. I thought that this was X-related, but the same occured out of X. But it was always at the beginning of the hour. Pierre -- Pierre Beyssac Pierre.Beyssac@emeraude.syseca.fr