Regain control of keyboard

[Malcolm Fitzgerald]

> Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:
>> Some days ago I type "portupgrade -a" on a machine which had just got 
>> a clean install of FreeBSD v6, with gnome, kde, sound, graphics, etc. 
>> In other words, a desktop plaything.
>>
>> Every other hour or so process would stop at on options screen and 
>> wait for my input. Recently it has stopped accepting input from the 
>> keyboard. The mouse is still active.
>>
>> How do I get my keyboard working again?
>>
On 12/04/2006, at 11:11 PM, David Schulz wrote:

> i have had the exact same thing when running portupgrade -ra on my 
> freebsd 6.0 amd64, but nothing would help except to power reboot the 
> computer. i tried pluggin in and out the usb keyboard, tried a ps2 
> keyboard. the only thing i couldnt try if i can connect to it still 
> via ssh. if i couldnt, i would say the machine was frozen.

Hmmm, I'm not ready to reboot yet, I want to let the process finish.

I can get past the dialogs using cut/paste into the shell with the 
mouse and klipper.

thanks for sharing

malcolm