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

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On 2018-03-29, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu 29 Mar 2018 at 10:46:17 (+0200), tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 08:24:03AM +0000, 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 them might involve looping on
> that timescale.
> Then, when it happens again, I'll try a remote login to see if
> I can catch some process at it. It hasn't yet happened (on the
> three occasions) at an opportune time for me to investigate.
>
> I agree, the first character is probably a NUL. The second is
> probably CR. Both can be used to terminate strings in different
> situations. Or perhaps my termcap has fallen into a 1960s wormhole:
> anyone remember WRU, and the Here Is key, …

I found more grist:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/7r7a5e/terminal_typing_on_its_own_only_in_tty_terminals/

(I personally have neither input_polldev nor peaq_wmi loaded here--in
fact the latter is inexistant on this machine according to modinfo).

Actually I'm uncertain peaq_wmi is a loadable module. If you enter,
however, "input_polldev spam" or "input_polldev bug" into a search
engine, it almost feels like hitting pay dirt.

> Cheers,
> David.
>
>


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whereas sorrow is a thing you can keep adding to all your life long, is it not,
like a stamp or an egg collection, without feeling very much the worse for it,
is it not. --Samuel Beckett

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Spurious character typed on console every ~20 secs until logged in David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-03-29 06:40 +0200
  Re: Spurious character typed on console every ~20 secs until logged  in <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-03-29 09:10 +0200
    Re: Spurious character typed on console every ~20 secs until logged  in Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-03-29 10:00 +0200
      Re: Spurious character typed on console every ~20 secs until logged  in <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-03-29 10:10 +0200
        Re: Spurious character typed on console every ~20 secs until logged  in Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-03-29 10:30 +0200
          Re: Spurious character typed on console every ~20 secs until logged  in <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-03-29 10:50 +0200
            Re: Spurious character typed on console every ~20 secs until logged  in David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-03-29 17:20 +0200
              Re: Spurious character typed on console every ~20 secs until logged  in <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-03-29 17:30 +0200
                Re: Spurious character typed on console every ~20 secs until logged  in David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-03-29 22:30 +0200
              Re: Spurious character typed on console every ~20 secs until logged  in Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-03-29 17:40 +0200
  Re: Spurious character typed on console every ~20 secs until logged  in Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2018-03-29 22:40 +0200
    Re: Spurious character typed on console every ~20 secs until logged  in David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-04-12 21:40 +0200

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