I've noticed some odd syscons keyboard behaviour over the past
month or so. Sometimes I get a vty that outputs PC graphics characters
for all of my input. This is always at a "login:" prompt. I think
I can duplicate this by typing a bunch of garbage at a login prompt,
but I don't feel like trying to test it right now and have to
reboot my main machine.
I just saw this again after a clean boot with a 24 hour old kernel.
(built 07:00 a.m. 9/16/99 CST from a few hour old CVSup).
The boot went fine, but when I started typing at the login prompt,
all I got was garbage. I couldn't switch vty's or anything.
I just gave up and hit the big red button. After the reboot,
everything was fine.
I think this might be some kind of timing problem. I was starting
to type in my username right away when I saw the boot was finishing,
and if I recall the past incidents correctly, I may have been
doing the same thing.
I've seen this probably 4 or 5 times in the past month, maybe
6 weeks. Anyone have any ideas what is going on?
This is a Compaq AMD K6-2/400 machine. PS/2 style keyboard input
to the motherboard. I'll be glad to supply any further details.
-Mike
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