-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 10:10:55AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 29 Mar 2018 at 10:46:17 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 08:24:03AM +0000, Curt wrote: > > > > [...] > > Thanks for the ideas. I hadn't come across the virtual buttons. > > I think I'll look at what processes are running by the time it > tries to mount /home, and which of them might involve looping on > that timescale.
If it's something in user space, it'd be interesting who has the console open. > Then, when it happens again, I'll try a remote login to see if > I can catch some process at it. It hasn't yet happened (on the > three occasions) at an opportune time for me to investigate. > > I agree, the first character is probably a NUL. The second is > probably CR. Both can be used to terminate strings in different > situations. Or perhaps my termcap has fallen into a 1960s wormhole: > anyone remember WRU, and the Here Is key, … Faintly. I also dimly remember about some serial interfaces sending NULLs when idle, but I can't put my finger on that. The advantage of old age is that you tend to forget things :) Cheers - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlq9BFoACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZC/QCeMMHnVu0gkJuXZzRK4gv+MoO9 zsUAnj8Ed8UoksfWNz2nHXOA/wfBMWKB =N4tw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
