Lock-up and now I have wierd keyboard errors

[Carl Reynolds]

Robert Canary wrote:

> I have a system with an older Redhat 7.2 in house system.
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> The system locked up, and I was forced to cycle power to get it out of
> its locked-up state.  The machine booted back up fine and no errors were
> detected as of any of the log files.  However, it is failing to
> recognize basic key codes from the keyboard.  left, right, up, down,
> F1...F12, PgUp, PgDn, etc.  It will type letters fine, enter, and tab
> but that is it.  This is on a KVM, I switched to other machines on this
> switch and the keyboard dose fine.  I changed the keyboard out, but that
> didn't correct it either.
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> I'm looking for a way to perhaps go into libs or setting somewhere and
> reset or perhaps reload whatever takes care of the keyboard.  Any idea
> were to start looking... Agin there is no cluse in the loggs files.
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> robert
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This sound more like a problem with your console than with the keyboard. 
Look to see if the /etc/termcap file has been corrupted or deleted.



Carl.