On Wed, Feb 04, 1998 at 03:35:34PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > It froze again.  I hit ctrl-alt-esc about N times before I got into the
> > debugger.  I viewed the process list, but couuldn't see anything odd
> > (I couldn't run any command like 'ls' because the shells no longer accepted
> > commands, so I don't know what state the 'ls' command would have been in).
> 
> Did you have a shell running on the console ? Did the keyboard still react 
> (i.e. something gets printed on screen when you type letters) ?

Yes, all processes which don't access the disk(s?) run OK and I can still
type on the console, but the system can't start login.

> Could it be possible that interrupts stays blocked (i.e. a missing splx()
> somewhere) ?

Wouldn't that stop the mouse pointer, all processes etc?  

  -jm