[PLUG] interesting (painful) mystery

alan alan at clueserver.org
Mon Oct 22 17:44:54 UTC 2007


On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Kurt Sussman wrote:

> alan (alan at clueserver.org) typed this ...
>> I think everything defaults to the system keymap.  If that is bjorked,
>> then the who system will display the same behavior.
>
> But if the system keymap (or any other keymap) is hosed, wouldn't it
> always be hosed? Why would that get better after mounting the root
> partition?
>
>>> Is the keymap loaded when the partition is mounted? That's when the
>>> problem goes away, after I boot into other than the installed OS. I don't
>>> think that's the case, so I haven't checked the keymap. I guess I
>>> should, for completeness.
>>
>> If you load a different OS, it will have a different keymap.
>
> Every OS I've booted in the last week has had the "missing 't'" problem
> at one time or another, but not consistently. This suggests that the
> keymap is not the problem, assuming that any live CD I booted does in
> fact have a different keymap, and I think that's a very safe assumption.
>
> For the record, I've tried the following live CDs:
>
> xubuntu 7.04	- yes, this probably has the same keymap
> DSL 3.4.4	- 2.4 kernel
> CentOS 5 cd#1	- I expect RH uses a different keymap
> 'ESD'		- someone's custom rescue CD, slackware-based
>
> Am I missing something obvious here?

If it happens with everything, then it is not software.

For the moment i would get a USB keyboard.  It sounds like your keyboard 
is coming unplugged or going bad.

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