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From: sos@login.dkuug.dk (S|ren Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: NetBSD: syslog bug -> stops keyboard in X
Date: 2 Feb 94 08:20:47 GMT
Organization: DKnet
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Message-ID: <sos.760177247@login.dkuug.dk>
References: <2ilmva$ieo@zeus.swindon.rtsg.mot.com>
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essenl@aztec.swindon.rtsg.mot.com (Lee Essen) writes:
>Has this been addressed in NetBSD-current...
>If something does a 'kill -1' on syslog (i.e. the hourly cron job that
>rotates the logs [hourly in the default crontab]), then my keyboard stops
>working. Everything else is ok.
This is an old "known bug" in the kernel console handeling code.
The newest syscons-1.3 (currently in beta) solves this problem
once and for all.
>I have to cut the words 'shutdown now' from anything else that happens to
>be on the screen, and as soon as it exits X everything is fine.
>(it's really annoying when you can't find a 'w' on the screen!!)
>Lee.
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Soeren Schmidt
sos@login.dkuug.dk