On 2018-03-29, <to...@tuxteam.de> <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > > 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.
I found another thread blaming the phenomenon on the "virtual lid buttons" (whatever the hell those are)--workaround involved xmodmap: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=213094 Anyway hope this is not yet another of my wild geese. > Cheers > - -- t > > -- We are no longer the same, you wiser but not sadder, and I sadder but not wiser, for wiser I could hardly become without grave personal inconvenience, whereas sorrow is a thing you can keep adding to all your life long, is it not, like a stamp or an egg collection, without feeling very much the worse for it, is it not. --Samuel Beckett
