On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 13:45, Adam Williamson wrote: > 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.
Had the same problem. I've updated the XFree packages and the kernel and after that everything worked again. -- Oliver Lemke University of Bremen - Institute of Environmental Physics Satellite Microwave Atmospheric Sounding Group
