-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'd say reboot the box. I've seen weirdness before with uptimes as long as yours, and it all went away after a reboot. Greg On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 05:27:09PM -0600, Luke Davis wrote: > Hello > > Kernel: 2.4.21 > Speakup: 1.5 > Synth: DEC Express > Uptime: 49 days > > I am running 8 consoles, all logged in, running different processes. > > TTY1, has just diverged from all other consoles. Its main purpose, has > been an ssh connection to my ISP, running pine, lynx, etc., via screen, on > that system. > > In lynx, when I press space to go to the next page, it usually starts > reading that page. Of course, because it's 1.5, it it usually reads > "word", carrage return, "word", as "wordword", if I just let it read the > drawing screen without having it start over after the screen is drawn, but > that is usual. > I noticed, that it had suddenly started pronouncing every single space, as > it drew the screen. > > Then too, in pine, when I pressed space to go to another page, it would > say some strange things, such as space, or a character, or something. > Trying to read the full screen, would maybe start with a "space", instead > of "pine 4.62", or what ever it should be. > > I left ssh, and back at my shell, tried typing "reset", logging out/in, > and setting speakup back to the defaults I usually use. > > No help. When ever I press enter, instead of hearing my shell prompt, I > hear the word "space". > If I switch to another console, and back to tty1, I either hear the > current line (the shell prompt), or the word "space". > > I'm probably forgetting a few. > > Other ttys are working, and speaking, as they should. > > Any thoughts? > > Oh, a few times in the last few weeks, that console (tty1), and maybe a > few others, would periodicly stop talking. Switching away from the > malfunctioning console, and switching back, would set things right. > > Thanks > > Luke > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > !DSPAM:421fb45e173757031336634! > > - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCH74b7s9z/XlyUyARAoWGAKCTWgOANX4Ea4oUAIWZx/ODZnxTiQCgtuo1 2l+4XlRpUhtINRaa8VyQ5n8= =2+Fx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
