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From: ndd@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Ned D. Danieley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: problems with keyboard after server crash
Summary: more info
Keywords: X11, crash
Message-ID: <13881@duke.cs.duke.edu>
Date: 16 Mar 89 15:21:27 GMT
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In article <13862@duke.cs.duke.edu>, ndd@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Ned D. Danieley) writes:
> I'm trying to debug an application which occasionally crashes,
> taking the server with it. When this happens, the keyboard is
> left in an unuseable state. I've tried kbd_mode -a: 
> 

Thanks to tadguy@cs.odu.edu, I now have more info. It appears to
not be a kbd_mode problem (or, at least, not entirely). I had a
screensaver program in the way; when I removed it, I saw that I
was getting four or five login messages, followed by 'getty failing,
sleeping'. It seems that something is sending characters to the
console. I've been able to get around this problem by killing getty
on the console, connecting to the console with kermit, exiting kermit,
and then restarting getty. It's not clear why this works, but it
seems to. Obviously, I'd like to avoid having to do this; surely
the server should be exiting more gracefully.

Has anyone else seen this kind of problem?


Ned Danieley (ndd@sunbar.mc.duke.edu)
Basic Arrhythmia Laboratory
Box 3140, Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC  27710
(919) 684-6807 or 684-6942