Re: 6.0-STABLE & powerd: eating my keyboard input

From: Bruno Ducrot (ducrot_at_poupinou.org)
Date: 11/24/05

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    Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 18:07:04 +0100
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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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