Yesterday.
...
While some tty's were compiling, in one of them
any backspace, keypress etc resulted in a spew
of characters, initially a cntl-u would clear, a
cntl-h would backspace, but in a few lines it
auto-keypressed itself to oblivion. A fsck
fixed it (cold shutdown, could not switch tty's).
Happens about twice a year...
....
Not urgent to fix,
maybe, but in 5.2.1 it would've caused data loss.
Just haven't heard of some mysterious keypress that
would work in that instance. Even a cntl-alt-del was
mapped to numeric characters.
...
While some tty's were compiling, in one of them
any backspace, keypress etc resulted in a spew
of characters, initially a cntl-u would clear, a
cntl-h would backspace, but in a few lines it
auto-keypressed itself to oblivion. A fsck
fixed it (cold shutdown, could not switch tty's).
Happens about twice a year...
....
Not urgent to fix,
maybe, but in 5.2.1 it would've caused data loss.
Just haven't heard of some mysterious keypress that
would work in that instance. Even a cntl-alt-del was
mapped to numeric characters.