Re: gpm locks out console keyboard
Not sure. I know that some hardware with
ps2 mouse, lockup the mouse, and you also
lockup the keyboard. I learned this the hard
way -- one keyboard, one mouse on two computers!
Dale Amon <amon@vnl.com> wrote:
: Does anyone know why gpm would completely hang
: console logins on a machine? I can still login remotely,
: and if I kill gpm I can then get a console.
: This would seem to be very bad behavior on gpm's part.
: It first happened after a dselect update on the
: woody dist back in August. I've been doing updates
: on a regular basis hoping the problem would just go
: away (the few hours I had to play with it were what
: led me to the above remote login solution, which has
: been enough to get by with this machine for awhile)
: as they usually do.
: Even if things have drastically changed, even if the
: config file is f***ed, one would not expect a mouse
: daemon to completely block console command line logins!
: Any suggestions for a bandaide until the underlying
: problem goes away?
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