bugme-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5910 > > Summary: tar to tape-drive kills keyboard, makes mouse hang, NMI > lock in logfile This is a fairly revolting-looking bug. The keyboard problem could be due to something else sending keventd into a loop - without keventd services it seems that USB keyboards won't work, but PS/2 will. Andi, could you please take a look at the NMI messages here? Is this a misinterpreted NMI watchdog message? I suspect not. Thanks. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html