Gah. This is rather annoying. My other Cooker PC (the desktop) has stopped accepting keyboard input between yesterday and today. What happens is it boots normally and puts me in GDM2. I have time to type my username and about half my password before some process which does something to the keyboard kicks in, the num lock light comes on (this is normal) and the keyboard stops accepting all input (this isn't). I can't even do an urpmi update and see if that fixes the problem because of all this bloody GCC 3.2 stuff - at the moment urpmi wants to uninstall all of GNOME (among other things) before it'll upgrade anything. A section has started appearing in /var/log/messages which wasn't there before, it runs like so:
Aug 15 12:30:55 duron /sbin/mingetty[2160]: tty2: invalid character � in login name Aug 15 12:30:56 duron /sbin/mingetty[2167]: tty2: invalid character � in login name Aug 15 12:30:59 duron /sbin/mingetty[2168]: tty2: invalid character � in login name Aug 15 12:30:59 duron init: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Any ideas? Suggestions? The system itself is running fine - mouse input is OK and I can ssh into it from this machine. -- adamw
