Re: Regain control of keyboard

2006-04-12 Thread 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.

Regain control of keyboard

2006-04-11 Thread Malcolm Fitzgerald
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

Re: Regain control of keyboard

2006-04-11 Thread David Schulz
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,

Re: Regain control of keyboard

2006-04-11 Thread 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.