Re: Spurious character typed on console every ~20 secs until logged in

2018-04-12 Thread David Wright
On Thu 29 Mar 2018 at 21:19:38 (+0100), Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > David Wright: > > >an extra ^@ character¹ > > > > Unix & Linux Stack Exchange had this last year. These look like very different symptoms. Taken in reverse order, > * https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/360830/

Re: Spurious character typed on console every ~20 secs until logged in

2018-03-29 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
David Wright: an extra ^@ character¹ Unix & Linux Stack Exchange had this last year. * https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/395494/ * https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/396192/ * https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/360830/

Re: Spurious character typed on console every ~20 secs until logged in

2018-03-29 Thread David Wright
On Thu 29 Mar 2018 at 17:20:58 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 10:10:55AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 29 Mar 2018 at 10:46:17 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 08:24:03AM +, Curt wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > > Thanks for the

Re: Spurious character typed on console every ~20 secs until logged in

2018-03-29 Thread Curt
On 2018-03-29, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 29 Mar 2018 at 10:46:17 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 08:24:03AM +, Curt wrote: >> >> [...] > > Thanks for the ideas. I hadn't come across the virtual buttons. > > I think I'll look at what

Re: Spurious character typed on console every ~20 secs until logged in

2018-03-29 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 10:10:55AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 29 Mar 2018 at 10:46:17 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 08:24:03AM +, Curt wrote: > > > > [...] > > Thanks for the ideas. I hadn't come across

Re: Spurious character typed on console every ~20 secs until logged in

2018-03-29 Thread David Wright
On Thu 29 Mar 2018 at 10:46:17 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 08:24:03AM +, Curt wrote: > > [...] Thanks for the ideas. I hadn't come across the virtual buttons. I think I'll look at what processes are running by the time it tries to mount /home, and which of

Re: Spurious character typed on console every ~20 secs until logged in

2018-03-29 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 08:24:03AM +, Curt wrote: [...] > Wild geese, it's spring, and they're migrating! :-) - -- t -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux)

Re: Spurious character typed on console every ~20 secs until logged in

2018-03-29 Thread Curt
On 2018-03-29, wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 07:50:13AM +, Curt wrote: >> On 2018-03-29, wrote: > > [link blaming NVidia] > >> I found another thread blaming the phenomenon on the "virtual lid >> buttons"

Re: Spurious character typed on console every ~20 secs until logged in

2018-03-29 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 07:50:13AM +, Curt wrote: > On 2018-03-29, wrote: [link blaming NVidia] > I found another thread blaming the phenomenon on the "virtual lid > buttons" (whatever the hell those

Re: Spurious character typed on console every ~20 secs until logged in

2018-03-29 Thread Curt
On 2018-03-29, wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 11:30:17PM -0500, David Wright wrote: >> This has happened a couple of times or so in the past week: >> On booting up, I get to the prompt to unlock my /home partition. >> The first attempt fails, not because I

Re: Spurious character typed on console every ~20 secs until logged in

2018-03-29 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 11:30:17PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > This has happened a couple of times or so in the past week: > On booting up, I get to the prompt to unlock my /home partition. > The first attempt fails, not because I mistyped the