System V/AT v2.4 Impressions and Bug Report

[David Messer]

In article <248 at uport.UUCP> jmsully at uport.UUCP (John M. Sully) writes:
 >In article <319 at sdti.UUCP> mjy at sdti.UUCP (Michael J. Young) writes:
 >>4.  Sometimes the keyboard locks up (scroll lock light on) and there
 >>    doesn't seem to be a way to free it up short of reset.  Even Ctrl-Alt-Del
 >>    stops working.  It's happened to me three times in four days, usually when
 >>    I've accidentally hit more than one key at a time while using CTRL-S
 >>    and CTRL-Q.  This never happened under 2.3, even though I wasn't
 >>    any better a typist back then!
 >
 >This bug has been reported a couple of times, but we have been unable to 
 >reproduce it.  I'll try hitting more than one key at a time.  BTW, we have
 >been told that if you wait about 3 minutes that things will be returned to
 >normal.

The first time I got this bug, I waited considerably longer
than three minutes and it didn't clear-up.  If/when I get it
again, I will try to record the exact situation that caused it
and wait fifteen minutes or so.  I will let you know if it
happens.
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