Just a thought, I've noticed such behaviour when an X display manager (xdm, gdm, wdm, etc.) is installed, and you are using more than the default 6 virtual terminals. (X display manager tries to spawn on VT7 by default.)
Did you happen to install a display manager when you upgraded? Regards, Steve Michael Anthon wrote: > Greetings, > I have an old Sparcstation IPC that I use as an X terminal sitting on my > desk here. It has been working fine for a while now (uptime was 96 days, > not bad for here considering it's not on a UPS) using a 2.0.36 kernel and I > think it was mostly potato based (could have been slink, it was so long ago > I have forgotten). > > Anyway, the 2.2.x kernel seemed to be getting a lot of good comments about > speed, so I installed that, then did a dist-upgrade to Woody ( I'm a > masochist, ok?). The upgrade seems to have gone pretty well, no major > faults to report in that process, however, now when I start X, the keyboard > and mouse stop working completely, even to the point where doing stop-a does > not work. Everything else seems to be ok, I can telnet/ssh in from > elsewhere and if I kill X off, I can redirect text to /dev/tty0 and it shows > up on screen. The only solution I have found that fixes the keyboard/mouse > it to do a shutdown and restart. > > Any thoughts as to what may be causing this? > > Cheers > Michael Anthon > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
