Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261957AbTK1ETc (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Nov 2003 23:19:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261965AbTK1ETc (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Nov 2003 23:19:32 -0500 Received: from c3p0.cc.swin.edu.au ([136.186.1.30]:31247 "EHLO swin.edu.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261957AbTK1ETb (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Nov 2003 23:19:31 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Tim Connors Subject: Re: 2.6 not cat proof References: <20031126201052.GA16106@outpost.ds9a.nl> X-Face: "$j_Mi4]y1OBC/&z_^bNEN.b2?Nq4#6U/FiE}PPag?w3'vo79[]J_w+gQ7}d4emsX+`'Uh*.GPj}6jr\XLj|R^AI,5On^QZm2xlEnt4Xj]Ia">r37r<@S.qQKK;Y,oKBl<1.sP8r,umBRH';vjULF^fydLBbHJ"tP?/1@iDFsKkXRq`]Jl51PWN0D0%rty(`3Jx3nYg! Message-ID: Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 15:19:27 +1100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1937 Lines: 40 bert hubert said on Wed, 26 Nov 2003 21:10:52 +0100: > This bug has been seen here over eight years ago and it is back.. linux > 2.6.0-test4 is still not cat proof :-) > > I found my cat asleep on the warm laptop, it is winter here, and the > keyboard was dead. Mouse still works, but I had to reboot before I could use > the keyboard again. Restarting X, which I could do with the mouse, did not > help. Are you sure he didn't press alt-sysreq-r or something? Mine has at various times, pressed ctrl-alt-backspace, ctrl-alt-delete, alt-sysrq-b (without s and u first, bastard), and the power button directly. This is all on a laptop, so sysrq requires you pressing fn first. One of the cats have also turned my heater on by the touch sensetive buttons, in the middle of summer while I was out for the day. The heater, and the power button now have molly gaurds, but the key combinations are hard to gaurd against. Read the fvwm webpage - most of the developers of fvwm have cats, and have, IIRC, documented various ways around their key typing habits. IIRC, there is a package that at least detects when a cat is walking across a keyboard, and forces you to click the mouse in a window under X. Won't stop the kernel crashing, but will do something. In all seriousness, on my laptop, (do to this and other reasons, I have stopped using 2.6 for the time being), when I pressed h and j (or something like that) at the same time, when I realeased one of the keys, I got some kernel warning like "invalid keyscan" or something. Never wrote it down, sorry. -- TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/ When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/