Very odd behavior with RC2

Karl Denninger karl at denninger.net
Mon Aug 15 20:52:08 UTC 2016


FreeBSD 11.0-PRERELEASE #2 r304166: Mon Aug 15 13:17:09 CDT 2016    
karl at NewFS.denninger.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KSD-SMP

Symptoms:

This machine is on a SuperMicro board with the integrated KVM.

After updating to this from the previous Alpha release this morning
(built circa July 15th) the emulated keyboard disappeared intermittently
(!) and would not register keypresses.  There appears to have been
something that has changed quite-materially in the loader and/or the
kernel in this regard.  Screen display was unaffected.

Toggling the mouse mode would restore the keyboard; this causes a detach
and reattach of the virtual keyboard to the system, and it would then work.

Just a heads-up as this was wildly unexpected and needless to say caused
me quite a bit of heartburn trying to perform the upgrade and mergemaster!

-- 
Karl Denninger
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