-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 11:30:17PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > This has happened a couple of times or so in the past week: > On booting up, I get to the prompt to unlock my /home partition. > The first attempt fails, not because I mistyped the passphrase, > but because an extra ^@ character¹ was typed by the system.
Bizarre. ^@ is (most probably) your terminal's way of spelling a NULL. Searching my brain extension (aka The Tubes) yields things: https://superuser.com/questions/1254863/null-character-appears-on-its-own-in-tty Blamed on an NVidia -- seems even more bizarre. It might point you into a totally wrong direction. Cheers - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlq8kCQACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZ5rQCfXQEAkvMpdrpeJefFlib6y1XW I54An0oI1ctsjtLmtu03yP/zjX8SWner =RLY2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
