just to throw a little more weight onto the keyboard interaction, i can
nearly duplicate this. i have a 486 machine that will flat out act like
molasses in penguinland if you unplug the keyboard. pinging it will go from
.2ms up to about 10-50,000ms. all processes running on the machine halt as
well. a dozen seconds after plugging the keyboard back in, everything
returns to normal. the first time this happened, i didn't realise the
keyboard had become disconnected and very nearly rebooted it due to the
excessive lag from my ssh connection. this is not a ps2 keyboard.
this one is most like the above network timeout/halt bug.
i'd wager there are some funky keyboard interactions that exist out here in
userland. i have another story.
i have two ps2 keyboards from the same manufacturer. same brand,
everything. i have a computer that is very finicky. one of the keyboards
will -not- work when plugged into it. linux reports keyboard timeouts on
bootup. it will -not- work even if you unplug and replug it to reset it.
this keyboard works perfectly everywhere else that i've tried.
and yet another keyboard story.
i have another server that requires a power down/reset button everytime you
want to reboot it or the keyboard will not work. it'll act like the above
keyboard.
...give me time and i'll find more keyboard issues =)
-d
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