On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 11:00:53AM -0500, Lista de NetBSD Users wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 xs@kittenz.org wrote:
> 
> > > This time I have check the keyboard of the box and
> > > I see the LED *scroll lock* is ON. I dont know why
> > > the led is on.
> >
> > ps alx might be handy, as it would show the wchan syslog was on.
> 
> UID   PID  PPID CPU PRI  NI  VSZ  RSS WCHAN    STAT  TT    TIME COMMAND
>   0     0     0   0 -18   0    0 7704 schedule DLs   ?? 0:01.05 (swapper)
>   0     1     0   0  10   0  312  192 wait     Is    ?? 0:00.01 init
>   0     2     0   0  10   0    0 7704 usbevt   DL    ?? 0:00.21 (usb0)
>   0     3     0   0 -18   0    0 7704 daemon_s DL    ?? 0:00.01
> (pagedaemon)
>   0     4     0   0 -18   0    0 7704 reaper   DL    ?? 0:02.45 (reaper)
>   0     5     0   0  18   0    0 7704 syncer   DL    ?? 1:20.20 (ioflush)
>   0   117     1   0   4   0  104  408 ttyout   Is    ?? 0:07.25
> /usr/sbin/syslogd -s

Yes, almost sure that syslogd is hung trying to write to /dev/console.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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