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Re: [PLUG] Keyboard Strangeness
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On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Michael C. Toren wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 12:41:28AM -0500, 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.
>
> I assume you've confirmed that the control key wasn't suck in a depressed
> position? You may also want to try "loadkeys us" or "loadkeys emacs2" to
> reset the keyboard map.
Even if the key is not actually stuck down, sometimes the system will
miss the PS/2 key-up event on one of the modifier keys. Try pressing all
the control, shift and alt keys a few times. It's not elegant, but
sometimes pounding on the keyboard will actually fix the problem.
A reboot will sort out many woes. Personally, I've never really
understood uptime fixations...I'd rather have a fully patched system.
If you *really* don't want to reboot your system, there are plenty of
other things you can do:
- Remove the monitor and mouse, and pretend you wanted a headless
server to begin with.
- Buy a USB keyboard and start using that, instead.
- If all else fails, take a look at the kernel code to figure out
where /proc/uptime gets its data from, and how to spoof it. C'mon!
It's no worse than using cheat codes to make it past a tricky
bit in Doom 3.
pls
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