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

From	David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Spurious character typed on console every ~20 secs until logged in
Date	2018-03-29 17:20 +0200
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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, …

Cheers,
David.

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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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