keyboard lock-up.

[Doug White]

On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Mark Dixon wrote:

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> On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 21:47, Andrew Lankford wrote:
> > On to another topic.  Is anyone having trouble with
> > keyboard lockups (every 3rd or 4th boot) in -CURRENT
> > lately?  I find that booteasy responds ok, but by the
> > time xdm starts up, my keyboard doesn't respond to
> > anything apart from the number lock key and the old
> > "three finger salute".
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> I've seen this recently as well - I use gdm. The only time I've been able to
> reproduce it every time was when I had spamd (from spamcop) enabled in /usr/
> local/etc/rc.d - this led me to believe it was an rc problem.

There is a known race between X and getty that's been around for ages.  If
X and getty on vty0 crank up simultaneously, syscons will drop the
keyboard.  The workaround is to insert a delay into your xdm startup so it
jumps into X after vty0 has started.

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