On Son, 2003-04-20 at 03:41, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > I was using emacs on my Titanium, and suddenly the machine behaved as > if the Ctrl key were permanently pressed. For instance, if I opened > an xterm, typing 'd' did a Ctrl-D and quit the shell. > > I decided to switch to a virtual console (I could do that), but here, > I got endless ^[[B sequences on the screen (as if this came from the > keyboard), and I couldn't do anything any longer: I couldn't login, > I couldn't even switch to another virtual console... > > Fortunately, there was another machine on the network and I could > telnet from it and reboot. I had the same problem a few months ago, > and had to switch off, IIRC. > > Did anyone have the same problem or a similar one?
Yeah, this just happened to me yesterday. :\ It's a key that's stuck somehow, you have to find out which one and press it again to stop it. I don't know if this is a kernel or hardware problem. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
