On Feb 19, Mason Loring Bliss wrote
> I've just tried disabling logins on /dev/ttyv0. Maybe the getty process
> that's attached to that is grabbing my keystrokes? Everything seems to be
> going well now, but I'll have to run it for a while to see if I can manage
> to lock it up.
> 

Yes, this is the reason if you log in via xdm: X garbbed the keyboard,
which I think may cause the getty running on //dev/ttyv0 to die some
time. So init restart it, and the new getty grabs the keyboard again ...

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