On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 09:20:25AM -0400, David Walter wrote: > But, I had the following error when trying to scroll back after using > this for a while. > > console: ../../hurd/console-client/ncursesw.c:462: ncursesw_scroll: > Assertion 'delta >= 0' failed. > Aborted.
This is only supposed to happen if you scroll back into the scrollback buffer. This is not possible with the ncursesw client because you can not scroll back, there is no key assigned to it. The only way this can happen is to start the ncursesw and pc_kbd driver in one console program and scroll back on the pc_kbd driver. Is this what you did? > After I get no response from the keyboard. > > Logging in from another machine and killing the hanging crash process > and I get: > > sh-2-05a# kbd queue full > kbd queue full > > Even pressing the control key gives this message. Strange. I don't know where this is coming from, maybe from Mach? > Of course there is the issue of some 'lone gun' walking up to your > machine with the console running and c+a+bksp gaining root at the > single user prompt, but I imagine an option for --no-kill or > --reboot-on-kill when we get around to security issues? It's not about security, because you are trying to do the wrong thing (you remove the wait command). The console client will be run like xdm or any other daemon, and the rc script will continue running. That's why you have to redirect /dev/console before starting the console client, and change the /etc/ttys to something to work with that. I think there should be a wrapper daemon that starts the console client in a loop, so if you exit it, it will be restarted. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann The Hurd http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de/ _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
