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Re: Help tracking down a random beep

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Am 09.05.19 um 02:32 schrieb rhkramer@gmail.com:
> On my Debian Jessie system, for several hours today I've been hearing a beep 
> (through my audio system / speakers / headphones) something like the beep that 
> used to come out of the PC speaker (on older computers -- I don't think I even 
> have that speaker connected on this computer).
> 
> The beep occurs at fairly random intervals, varying from about 5 seconds and 
> going up to as much as 5 minutes or more.
> 
> I've tried looking at a lot of the logs, but so far I haven't found any log 
> that tells me anything about that beep (the logs I've looked at include 
> syslog, messages, Xorg, kern, daemon, wtmp (??).
> 
> Does somebody here have some suggestions on trying to track down the source, 
> preferably without having to shut down any applications or the computer? 
> 

I had this looong time ago. Caused by a noisy/broken keyboard cable. My be there could be a situation similar on modern USB base keyboards?

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Help tracking down a random beep rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-05-09 02:40 +0200
  Re: Help tracking down a random beep Charlie Kravetz <charlie@keepingdreams.com> - 2019-05-09 06:00 +0200
    Re: Help tracking down a random beep Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2019-05-09 08:20 +0200
      Re: Help tracking down a random beep Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-05-09 12:00 +0200
        Re: Help tracking down a random beep Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-05-09 16:00 +0200
          Re: Help tracking down a random beep Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-05-09 16:30 +0200
        Re: Help tracking down a random beep Jan Claeys <lists@janc.be> - 2019-05-09 20:50 +0200
          Re: Help tracking down a random beep David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-05-10 03:20 +0200
            Re: Help tracking down a random beep rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-05-10 16:30 +0200
      Re: Help tracking down a random beep rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-05-09 16:00 +0200
        Re: Help tracking down a random beep Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-05-09 18:10 +0200
  Re: Help tracking down a random beep Martin <keine-eile@online.de> - 2019-05-09 16:10 +0200
    Re: Help tracking down a random beep rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-05-09 19:10 +0200

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