John Hodges wrote: > I've just started using Linux in the last week or so. I got FC2 up and > running without any problems, uptime of about 5 days or so, then I get > home from work and my keyboard is not responding. My first instinct was > to reboot Kenneth Porter replied: > How are you rebooting? If from a shell over the network, are there any > messages in the log files (eg. /var/log/messages) that might suggest > something failing? John posted: > I logged out of GNOME using GUI interface, since mouse worked and > keyboard didn't. Rebooted the machine from GUI login screen for same reason. > > /var/log/messages contains the following entries > > Sep 21 19:49:24 localhost kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 00(60) > Sep 21 19:49:24 localhost kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 60(60) > Sep 21 20:13:57 localhost kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 60(60) > Sep 21 20:20:40 localhost kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 60(60) > Sep 21 20:23:53 localhost kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 60(60) > Sep 21 22:00:37 localhost kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 60(60) > Sep 22 04:02:03 localhost logrotate: ALERT exited abnormally with [1] Try adding " noapic" to the end of the kernel line in /boot/grub/grub.conf Are your mouse and keyboard PS/2 or USB? What does /proc/interrupts show? (It would be interesting to see a "before and after" for the noapic change. Is this an SMP system or a hyperthreading one? Thanks, James. -- E-mail address: james | "Hardware simply does not work like the manual says @westexe.demon.co.uk | and no amount of Zen contemplation will ever make you | at one with a 3c905B ethernet card." | -- Alan Cox