Re: console hangs, but machine still up

[Phil Homewood <philh@mincom.com>]

Peter Kocks wrote:
> Every other night (now more regularly than last week) I come into
> work and find that my firewall (the OpenBSD 2.4 box) console is
> locked up.  I can type maybe one return or two and then it just
> hangs not allowing any other input.

I'm seeing the same problem here.

2.4/i386 with CVS update from Jan 19. Pentium 2/333MHz. dmesg
and kernel config available on request.

Logins already active across the network (via ssh) echo keystrokes
back but no more. Some ports respond, some do not. Happens around
once-twice a week since installation - I haven't managed to track
it to any specific activity, though a colleague has noticed it's
happened several times while he's been reviewing logfiles, but
other times have been while the machine was doing nothing more
than shuffling mail via smtpd/sendmail.

Console (which is a serial port) echoes back the first carriage
return entered and then locks solid.
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