On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 13:08, Oliver Lemke wrote: > 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.
OK, i'll try that, thanks. FWIW it does seem related to the gettys - if I comment them out in inittab it seems to work OK, but then I don't have any virtual consoles so it's not ideal =) -- adamw
