Re: 7.0-CURRENT panics if scroll lock is pressed during boot

From: Maksim Yevmenkin <maksim.yevmenkin_at_savvis.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:00:32 -0700
Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 12:08:48PM +0200, Goran Gajic wrote:
>> On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
>>
>>> It might be another issue in kbdmux, as keyboard not working in the
>>> debugger apparently is.  You can try hitting Scroll Lock with kbdmux
>>> disabled in device.hints or not compiled into the kernel in order
>>> to see if it's the case.  Should the system still panic, you'll at
>>> least have the keyboard working in the debugger.
>> You were right: when I have disabled kbdmux in /boot/device.hints
>> scroll lock hitting is no longer causing panics and I have
>> noticed that scroll lock, caps lock and pause/break LEDs are working
>> again. For some reason after cvsup at the end of May LEDs stopped
>> working..
> 
> Did you inform Maksim Yevmenkin of this problem?  He is the author
> of kbdmux, so he is very likely to be interested in finding and
> fixing such issues.  I carbon copied this message to him.  Perhaps
> he will tell if you should file a PR on the problem for future
> reference.

i've seen original email and tried to reproduce it here. so far, i was 
not able to crash my system by pressing scroll lock during boot. i need 
clear instruction on how to reproduce the crash.

thanks,
max
Received on Wed Jun 14 2006 - 15:00:46 UTC

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