Re: random keystrokes ignored on console

El vie, 30-11-2007 a las 17:16 -0600, Owen Heisler escribió:
> On Thu, 2007.11.29 22:39, Owen Heisler wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007.11.29 21:32, Owen Heisler wrote:
> > > Sometimes, when I type in the console, about 40% of the keystrokes are ignored.
> > > If I type (for example) "startx" and hit enter, I'll see "sart" or somesuch and
> > > the command fails. In that same case, typing "sttartxx" and enter probably
> > > would have worked, with "startx" being run. The enter key is also affected, so
> > > maybe I'd have had to hit it twice. This is frustrating, obviously. This
> > > - does not seem to be related to system temperature,
> > > - does not happen in X,
> > > - doesn't seem to be happening consistently,
> > > - and affects logging in (username & password) too.
> >
> > I fixed this by upgrading dbus from 1.0.2-1 to 1.1.1-3.
>
> Actually, this didn't fix the problem. After the system is booted, there are
> three dbus processes running: two 'dbus-daemon' and one 'dbus-launch'. Killing
> the 'dbus-launch' process fixes the problem (until the next reboot, of course).

dbus-launch is used to launch a program within a session bus instance. Try checking the init scripts to see what program is being run, that program may be the cause of the problem and not dbus itself.

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