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Description of problem: This is very weird; I was a UNIX (mostly kernel) debugger for 10 years, so please believe me. Just installed F16, and after a while the m-key stopped working -- i.e. press the key and nothing happens. Only lower case m; "M" is fine. My first thought was the keyboard, so I switched it & still got the problem. I am working at first with the Gnome terminal emulator I launched vncserver and did vncviewer from another system, and even HERE the "m" didn't work. *NOW* I launch firefox and typing "m" in the URL field *DOES* work. So I type a URL containing an "m", and try to copy/paste it into a Gnome terminal command line, and everything but the "m" is copied. Last, on the F16 system, I get a non-X console using Control-Alt-F4. I *CAN* type "m" at the login prompt -- works find. But once I'm logged in, pressing the "m" key is again ignored. *PREVIOUSLY* today, none of this was happenning. I know because I can remember I used "yum" a few times. At some point between working and not working, I think the system had timed out and was prompting for a password, and the keyboard got up against something and so repeated entering some character hundreds of times. I did a hard reboot with no effect also. Even unplugged it for a minute before rebooting. Finally, reinstalling F16 *DID* fix the problem. I doubt I can send you anything useful w.r.t. reproducing it, and I am now going to work around it by Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
IMPORTANT: After reinstalling, I replicated the bug (accidentally) by adding mode=vi; export mode to /etc/inputrc just before the line $if mode=emacs Replacing this with "set editing-mode vi" got rid of the problem and gave me the result I wanted.
This (very odd :) bug seems more like a bash issue than Xfce's Terminal... or possibly gnome-terminal. Moving to bash for comment.
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