On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 12:32 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Mystery solved! > > The keyboard has failed! > > Typing the password characters after the root prompt shows one key > does nothing, not even a blank space! Yes, I've been caught by that, before. It's even more of a problem with some GUI systems. On a CLI-only system, you're quite likely to notice a key going bad. But if you rarely type, and mostly point and click, you mightn't get any noticeable hint about a key starting to fail. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
