Mouse/Keyboard dead, node alive

Hi.

I have got a QNX 4/Photon 1.14 (latest versions of all the software) node
here, which has started to develop a problem with dead mouse/keyboard (not
responding, mouse doesn’t move, can’t exit photon with hotkey combination).

How do I track the cause of the problem down? It looks like Input is still
running when I do a ‘sin’ from another node.

I can do a ‘sin’ from another node, so the system seems to be alive. I can
slay Photon from a remote node. After that I can restart Photon from the
shell. The keyboard and mouse are okay when I get back to Photon (with no
reboot).

Can I restart Input on this node from another node without having to bring
Photon down? How?

TIA

Augie

Hi Augie,

I have a couple of questions

Augie Henriques <augiehenriques@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hi.

I have got a QNX 4/Photon 1.14 (latest versions of all the software) node
here, which has started to develop a problem with dead mouse/keyboard (not
responding, mouse doesn’t move, can’t exit photon with hotkey combination).

Does this problem occur after the system is booted or after running for a
while?

If it takes a while is there an average time that this runs before it gets
to the state where the mouse and keyboard is dead?

How do I track the cause of the problem down? It looks like Input is still
running when I do a ‘sin’ from another node.

What state is the Input in when you run the sin command?

I can do a ‘sin’ from another node, so the system seems to be alive. I can
slay Photon from a remote node. After that I can restart Photon from the
shell. The keyboard and mouse are okay when I get back to Photon (with no
reboot).

Do you have another system the problem can be reproduced on ?

Can I restart Input on this node from another node without having to bring
Photon down? How?

You can use inputtrap start - this will detect the input devices and start
the Input Manager. It will use the configuration file found /etc/config/trap/input.node#

TIA

Augie

Hope this helps
Regards
Brenda