Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Apr 1998 16:20:59 -0500 (CDT) | From | Sean Kelly <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.97 lockup. |
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On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Colten Edwards wrote: > >After downing my ppp interface last night and going to bed, I woke up this >morning to a blank screen (relatively normal situation). But my keyboard >was dead. no matter what keys I pounded on, this situation continued, so I >was left with options of a) pressing reset b) turning off the power. When >I did press reset the system rebooted and everything was back to normal. >This particular problem has occured twice in two days with .97 kernel. I >hadn't applied any patches to the kernel, but have since applied the >system.h patch to see if maybe something there is causing me unseen grief. >BTW this doesn't seem to be anything consistant, it has occurred only >after many hours of a blank screen (console blanker maybe?). SMP is turned >off in the Makefile, Alt-Sysreq support is enabled. > I've experienced the same situations with many 2.1.9x kernels. As I've reported to this mailing list in the past, I was able to login with a serial terminal. Upon system examination, the only difference in the system that I could tell was that gpm (the mouse daemon running on my ps/2 mouse) had died.
Once I restarted gpm ('gpm -t ps2' for me), the keyboard unlocked and the system returned to normal. I do not know whether the bug exists in gpm, the kernel, or my head, but I am most defantly having troubles with the PS/2 driver.
If you have a serial access to your machine, I suggest you run a getty on the serial port and try this after the system freezes.
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