From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 24 17:07:14 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 521C116A41F for ; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 17:07:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ducrot@poupinou.org) Received: from poup.poupinou.org (poup.poupinou.org [195.101.94.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6E8043D69 for ; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 17:07:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ducrot@poupinou.org) Received: from ducrot by poup.poupinou.org with local (Exim) id 1EfKYq-0000dI-00; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 18:07:04 +0100 Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 18:07:04 +0100 To: BSD Message-ID: <20051124170704.GA2351@poupinou.org> References: <4385187A.9090407@celeritystorm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4385187A.9090407@celeritystorm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Bruno Ducrot Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0-STABLE & powerd: eating my keyboard input X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 17:07:14 -0000 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.