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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
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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