> So it seems likely to me that this is a kernel bug, somewhere, and the > TTY layer seems like a good place to look (OK, a horrible place, but a > *likely* place). Somewhere around 2.6.29-30 various things went funny in the keyboard layer for me - notably characters "bleeding" across console switches. > > I'm about to try reverting the suggested commit and will report back. I > see this failure about once a day, so I'll give it three days to go > wrong and then (if it doesn't) will presume it works and so inform you. > > > (Of course with this commit reverted Emacsen start dropping data from > their ptys, and as bad luck would have it I live in (X)Emacs, but that's > on a different machine! so I can have my compile buffer data *and* not > destroy X ;} ) X doesn't touch the pty layer. It touches vt (extensively) and the input layers. It's vt/kbd access is also very raw so bypasses much of that layer. That isn't to say tty isn't the cause but look for input layer changes too. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html