kdm randon keystrokes when on ethernet

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theRealMorpheu5 · Post by **theRealMorpheu5** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 5:47 pm

Hello. It is some days now that I'm experiencing this strange behaviour of kdm. At the first boot it waits for my password and, when I type it in, it grabs only three or four characters (in different timings related to my typing and even when I typed more than four strokes) and then starts filling the field endlessly. I've managed to know that the repeating stroke is a 'd', if it's of some interest (and there's no 'd' in my password

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Today I went to a place where I hadn't ethernet connectivity and kdm didn't show the weird behaviour. At first I didn't understand the connection since I thought it was something related to the event interface that manages my keyboard and my wacom tablet (yep, I have some troubles related to events and wacom).

When I came back, after some experiments, I noticed that if I booted Linux with the ethernet cable unplugged, kdm worked flawlessly. Then I tried to reboot with the cable plugged in and magic! kdm wasn't working again!

Ideas?

PS. Forgot to mention that I couldn't /etc/init.d/xdm restart since kdm seems to be locked up.

theRealMorpheu5 · Post by **theRealMorpheu5** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 9:12 am

theRealMorpheu5 · Post by **theRealMorpheu5** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 9:50 am

Sorry but... up?

theRealMorpheu5 · Post by **theRealMorpheu5** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 7:54 am

Nothing? The problem persists and I have no clue on what it going on nor on how to effectively report the situation. Any suggestion is welcome.

spufi · Post by **spufi** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 12:34 pm

locate the pid and do a "strace -p <pid>" and try to go from there what your kdm process is trying to do?