SRM console doesnt accept any input

[Maurice Hilarius]

I have seen blown keyboard chips before.
OTOH, i have also seen dead keyboards?
Have you tried shutting down/power off and a different keyboard yet?


Heid Oliver wrote:

>Has anybody seen this and/or can give me a clue what to do?
>Since yesterday the SRM console on my dual UP2000+ does not accept any
>keyboard
>input anymore, though it produces the usual text output on screen during
>boot
>(the kernel is 2.6.10-rc2-bk15). E.g., I cant stop autobooting with CTRL-C.
>So I let the system fall back to SRM during shutdown, and indeed got the
>blue
>SRM screen with the usual output, but no response to any keyboard input.
>
>I wanted to set auto_action from BOOT to HALT in the first place, so I
>thought I change it in /proc/srm_environment/named_variables/. But it
>turned out I can't edit the SRM variables there - any write attempt locks
>up the system. Even the read access results in an error message
>cat auto_action
>BOOTcat: auto_action: Bad address
>
>thanks
>	Oliver
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