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[PLUG] Re: Keyboard Strangeness
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On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Doug Crompton wrote:
> My server has been up for over a year without a reboot. 99.9% of the time
> I log in via SSH on my local network. Just recently when I attempted to
> login on the 'real - plugged into the PS2 connector' keyboard I get
> strange characters like ^g when I hit g and it is basically unusable. I
> cannot login. I tried killing the term but it stays the same. It also
> seems the other virtual sessions are hosed (F2,F3, etc.) if it even
> switches to them.
>
> Is there anything else I can do to reset the hardware without reboot which
> I expect would fix it? I don't want to spoil my uptime record!
Continue to login via ssh. :-)
Seriously though, I doubt there is any way to reset things without a reboot.
At least I have never found one.
Since the machine has been up a year now would be a good time to update that
kernel, unless of course the machine is not connected to the net.
Regards,
Tom Diehl tdiehl@rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd123@rogueind.com
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