Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: System hang from holding left shift key | Date | 03 Nov 2008 16:30:21 +0100 |
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Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> writes:
> While absentmindedly holding down the left shift key as I was thinking about my > next input, I froze the keyboard. After 3 seconds, the system sounded a high > beep, and then a low beep after another 3 seconds. At that point, no key entry > had any effect. From the beeps, one might conclude that the input buffer is > full, but a CTRL/U did not clear it. Fortunately, a short press on the power > button shut down the machine cleanly. > > I don't know if this is a regression. I found it in v2.6.28-rc2, but the oldest > kernel that I could test (v2.6.24) already has the problem.
I vaguely remember hitting something like that long ago (much earlier 2.6). But i wasn't able to stabilize it so I never reported it or tried to track it down. But it's probably not a new problem.
-Andi
-- ak@linux.intel.com
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