Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 18:07:04 +0100 From: Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org> To: BSD <bsdlists@celeritystorm.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0-STABLE & powerd: eating my keyboard input Message-ID: <20051124170704.GA2351@poupinou.org> In-Reply-To: <4385187A.9090407@celeritystorm.com> References: <4385187A.9090407@celeritystorm.com>
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On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 01:33:46AM +0000, BSD wrote: > Hi all, > > I just upgraded from 6.0-RELEASE to -STABLE today (FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE > #0: Thu Nov 24 00:40:48 WET 2005). After the upgrade I couldn't login > anymore, so I thought I probably erased master.passwd by mistake with > mergemaster, and rebooted into single user mode. Here I reset both root > and my user account password, and processed to multiuser, only to fail > the login again. Both on KDE and console. I rebooted again into single > user, and changed both password to 3 characters. Now I could login, but > every word I typed would have some letters wiped out (that was why the > login was failing, it was "eating" my password). > > A quick 'top' inspection showed powerd using ~30% CPU, which is > abnormal. I killed it, and voila! No more letter-eating. I started it > again, and back to the same. > > powerd has always worked fine, it started behaving like this when I > upgraded just an hour ago. This is a centrino laptop from acer. > Comments, suggestions ? > There is a recent commit from Nate Lawson dated 2005-11-24 05:29:15 UTC that should fix that issue. -- Bruno Ducrot -- Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? -- Don't know. Don't care.
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