My keyboard still locks up a number of times a day, mouse still working. This has been happening for a while (not with 7.2). I am using the latest rawhide XFree86-4.1.0-8 and Mesa (from 12/11/01). This is very annoying as you can imagine. There are no error messages in the log files. What could make keyboard hang? I am aware that few other people have been reporting the same problem. Thanks
You can reproduce this by: 1. start a virtual console (ALT-f1+login) 2. start another virtual console (ALT-f2+login) 3. startx in one of the consoles 4. wait till the autologout happens in the other virtual console 5. now your keyboard is locked
umar - is toba's description the same as what you're experiencing, or is it a different problem? Could you provide details of yoour hardware, and a logfile and config file as file attachements using the link below please?
I tracked down my problem to the SysVinit package. It must have worked with 2.78 and started to have this with 2.79. I upgraded to 2.84 and only kept the patches that worked (they incorportated 3 of the redhat patches already). Works like a charm. None of the things that made the keyboard lock do it anymore.
closing, there's already a sysvinit bug on this. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58795 ***