On 2018-03-29, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> 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. > 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, …
I found more grist: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/7r7a5e/terminal_typing_on_its_own_only_in_tty_terminals/ (I personally have neither input_polldev nor peaq_wmi loaded here--in fact the latter is inexistant on this machine according to modinfo). Actually I'm uncertain peaq_wmi is a loadable module. If you enter, however, "input_polldev spam" or "input_polldev bug" into a search engine, it almost feels like hitting pay dirt. > Cheers, > David. > > -- 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
