2.4.2 - Locked keyboard

2.4.2 - Locked keyboard

[Jorge Boncompte [DTI2]]

    Hi all!

    I have a squid server box (~150 users) that has been running without
problems since 2.4.0-test10. Now with 2.4.2 it has had an uptime of 29 days
(power loss). After the reboot, the keyboard was working 5 minutes and then
it locked. The console was working. I rebooted the machine again and has
been working for 2 days, that the keyboard gets locked again.

    I changed the keyboard and looked at the keyboard plugs unsucessfully.

    Could this be related to a kernel bug or an userspace issue??? How can I
debug it?

    -Jorge

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Re: 2.4.2 - Locked keyboard

[Petr Vandrovec]

On 11 May 01 at 18:59, Alan Cox wrote:
> >     I changed the keyboard and looked at the keyboard plugs unsucessful=
> > ly.
> > 
> >     Could this be related to a kernel bug or an userspace issue??? How =
> > can I
> > debug it?
> 
> I think its kernel related. There are a few other reports of 'my computer
> is fine but they keyboard stopped working' with 2.4.x. Does the box have
> a ps/2 mouse ?

Just FYI - all my boxes with PS/2 connector without connected mouse (and 
psaux compiled into kernel) stop responding to keyboard as soon as gpm 
starts. If I kill gpm, keyboard starts working again. I never investigated 
it, as I assumed that it is just admin mistake to run gpm without mouse. 
It should not behave this way?

                                        Best regards,
                                            Petr Vandrovec
                                            vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
                                            

Re: 2.4.2 - Locked keyboard

[Alan Cox]

>     I changed the keyboard and looked at the keyboard plugs unsucessful=
> ly.
> 
>     Could this be related to a kernel bug or an userspace issue??? How =
> can I
> debug it?

I think its kernel related. There are a few other reports of 'my computer
is fine but they keyboard stopped working' with 2.4.x. Does the box have
a ps/2 mouse ?

Re: 2.4.2 - Locked keyboard

[Chipzz]

On Fri, 11 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: 2.4.2 - Locked keyboard
>
> >     I changed the keyboard and looked at the keyboard plugs unsucessful=
> > ly.
> >
> >     Could this be related to a kernel bug or an userspace issue??? How =
> > can I
> > debug it?
>
> I think its kernel related. There are a few other reports of 'my computer
> is fine but they keyboard stopped working' with 2.4.x. Does the box have
> a ps/2 mouse ?

I have the same problem (keyboard stops working) on 2.2 too. Keyboard is
serial (or what's the non-ps/2 thing called?), mouse is ps/2, happens when I
switch consoles. (in most cases X vs text, but not always, happened to me
once right after reboot too, when switching between 2 text consoles).

I can still ssh into the box and reboot it thou

Greetings,

Chipzz AKA
Jan Van Buggenhout
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Re: 2.4.2 - Locked keyboard

[Anuradha Ratnaweera]

On Thu, 10 May 2001, Jorge Boncompte [DTI2] wrote:

> After the reboot, the keyboard was working 5 minutes and then it
> locked. The console was working. I rebooted the machine again and has
> been working for 2 days, that the keyboard gets locked again.

Just to make sure...

Did you check scoll lock? :)

Anuradha


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Re: 2.4.2 - Locked keyboard

[Jorge Boncompte [DTI2]]

    Yes, I did... I checked NumLock and CapsLock too, but any of this turn
seems to work (the leds doesn't change the state).

 "cat /proc/interrupts" shows that IRQ1 doesn't trigger anymore. Although
all services in the machine are working...(weird, isnt't it?)

    Regards.

    -Jorge

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DTI2 - Desarrollo de la Tecnología de las Comunicaciones
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Anuradha Ratnaweera" <anuradha@bee.lk>
To: "Jorge Boncompte [DTI2]" <jorge@dti2.net>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: 2.4.2 - Locked keyboard


>
> On Thu, 10 May 2001, Jorge Boncompte [DTI2] wrote:
>
> > After the reboot, the keyboard was working 5 minutes and then it
> > locked. The console was working. I rebooted the machine again and has
> > been working for 2 days, that the keyboard gets locked again.
>
> Just to make sure...
>
> Did you check scoll lock? :)
>
> Anuradha
>
>
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>
>

Re: 2.4.2 - Locked keyboard

[Chris Meadors]

On Tue, 15 May 2001, Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:

>
> On Thu, 10 May 2001, Jorge Boncompte [DTI2] wrote:
>
> > After the reboot, the keyboard was working 5 minutes and then it
> > locked. The console was working. I rebooted the machine again and has
> > been working for 2 days, that the keyboard gets locked again.
>
> Just to make sure...
>
> Did you check scoll lock? :)

I was seeing the same problem in 2.4.0-2.  Unplugging my keyboard for a
few seconds and then plugging it back in would solve it when it happened,
but it would happen again.

2.4.3 seemed to have the problem decrease, and I don't think I've seen it
once with 2.4.4.

So someone seemed to have known about it and was working to fix it.

-Chris
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