Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 09:15:00 -0400 (EDT) From: timmmyymymy <ac199@hwcn.org> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: i386/4030: syscons thinks CTRL is always pressed Message-ID: <199707041315.JAA00298@x22> Resent-Message-ID: <199707041320.GAA24472@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 4030
>Category: i386
>Synopsis: syscons thinks CTRL pressed, must reboot [repeatable]
>Confidential: no
>Severity: critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Jul 4 06:20:01 PDT 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Tim Vanderhoek
>Organization:
Syscons users
>Release: FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE i386
>Environment:
FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE.
Award PCI/ISA Bios. 2A59CG0P
GENERIC kernel
I suspect that this is irrelevent.
>Description:
I use a modified keyboard map. /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/my.map
has the following line modified,
090 cr rctrl rctrl rctrl rctrl rctrl rctrl rctrl O
When I act as described in "How-To-Repeat", syscons will begin thinking
that one of the ctrl keys is always pressed. ie. pressing a `d' sends
^D. It then becomes necessary to reboot (since the computer is quite
unusable). If X is running, it, of course, is not affected.
This did not happen (I don't _believe_ it happened) in the SNAP of 2.2
that I had been running before.
I could not find any open prs that looked related. The only modification
to syscons.c I found that might be relevant was 1.98.
>How-To-Repeat:
kbdcontrol -l /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/my.map ; # Where my.map has 090 -> cr
# Copy line from Description
# Now, press the lctrl key, hold it down, and then press the rctrl key
# Now, press `d' (or any key, for that matter), and you will be logged out.
# Warning... You will have to reboot to return syscons to its normal
# state...
>Fix:
sos? ;)
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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