2.3.40 nondeath

[Baloo Ursidae]

>Yesterday, on 2.3.40, under X, suddenly keyboard and mouse
>stopped responding. Logging in from another machine all
>was perfect. Also keyboard and mouse were OK. I did
>a number of tests but could not discover anything wrong
>other than that X seemed to have semi-died - it was still
>running, but did not even reply to change vt requests -
>the VT_WAITACTIVE ioctl would hang. Nothing was logged.
>Now "shutdown -r now" did nothing, but "shutdown -r -n now"
>(where -n says not to involve init) rebooted the machine.

Ok, regarding my keyboard/mouse death, I tried it with a newer ALTServer, 
and it worked just fine.  Warning to all you who own ALTServers with BIOS 
version 0.00.01.BI0 is broken, you can't upgrade the flash bios and things 
break gratuitously under SMP...
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