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  • Bug#265756: kernel-image-2.6.7: funny caps-lock bug when logging in

    From [email protected]@1:229/2 to All on Sat Aug 14 21:40:11 2004
    XPost: linux.debian.kernel

    Subject: kernel-image-2.6.7: funny caps-lock bug when logging in
    Package: kernel-image-2.6.7-1-386
    Version: 2.6.7-2
    Severity: minor
    File: kernel-image-2.6.7

    Step to reproduce:

    1. goto tty5 for example
    2. press capslock
    3. type in your username <enter> -> PASSWORD: appears
    4. press capslock
    5. enter your correct password
    6. linux now seems to be case insensitive (is not, but writes everything
    in big capitals.

    sorry if this is a bash bug

    ii bash 2.05b-15 The GNU Bourne Again SHell

    -- System Information:
    Debian Release: 3.1
    APT prefers testing
    APT policy: (500, 'testing')
    Architecture: i386 (i686)
    Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-1-386
    Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

    Versions of packages kernel-image-2.6.7-1-386 depends on:
    ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities
    ii initrd-tools 0.1.71 tools to create initrd image for p ii module-init-tools 3.1-pre5-3 tools for managing Linux kernel mo

    -- no debconf information



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  • From Harald Dunkel@1:229/2 to All on Sun Aug 15 08:40:07 2004
    XPost: linux.debian.kernel
    From: [email protected]

    This is a feature, not a bug. In the early days of
    computing people used teletypers for interactive
    work. These devices had only upper case or only
    lower case letters. So if you enter your login
    name in upper case letters, it is assumed that
    you have only upper case.

    Teletypers were heavy character devices receiving data
    over a serial line at about 50 bit/sec. Only 1 character
    was buffered. See http://members.aon.at/oe1-100470/wago13.htm
    for some nice images.

    BTW, the end of line sequence in DOS (CR-LF) is a
    feature introduced for teletypers, too.

    On a Carriage Return (CR) the carriage, a pretty heavy
    piece of hardware, was pulled back by a big spring from
    the right edge to the left edge of the paper. This took
    more time than receiving the next character. But
    fortunately the Line Feed (LF) could be executed while
    the carriage was still on its way, so its "CR-LF".

    Something like LF-CR would not have worked.


    Regards

    Harri


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