Subject: Unexpected IRQ 1 interrupt.
To: None <current-users@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu>
From: David Bryan Burgess <burgessd@cwis.unomaha.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 04/15/1994 18:05:14
I haven't really had a chance to start looking at this myself, but I was
wondering if anyone else had this happen:
1. I am working from the console. I am typing along, and run the new 'vi'
program. When the screen clears, I get three 'unexpected interrupt 1'
errors in a row. Once I have received them, absolutely nothing WRT
the keyboard will work anymore. The lights are off, the keys don't even
click anymore.
2. My system has actually been doing this since I started with NetBSD.
It is just that now I see a message that tells me that I am basically
hosed. :-(
I am running a 386DX-40 with 8Meg and an IDE controller. I changed
the 'keymatic' keypress speed from 15 characters a second to 12. It
seemed to help for a while...
The problem is NOT reproducible in any kind of reliable way, except
for a short Murphy syndrome (I was editting a file that a cronjob
would need in about 2 minutes. Lock and reboot.) Note that it
doesn't kill the machine or anything. I can still log in from the
VT-100 (when I remember to enable it) and do anything (until it
locks up).
I am open to suggestions (except 'buy a new computer' or 'you should try
FreeBSD' :-) Not that I actually have anything AGAINST FreeBSD mind you.
Standard disclaimer applies.
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