[plug] Weirdness on getty

[Bernard Blackham]

Peoples,

I accidentally discovered this bizzarity on my Debian 2.2 Intel system
with caps lock unintentionally used... Has anybody else noticed it?

At the login prompt at a getty on a vt, typing a username or any string of
letters entirely in uppercase will result in everything thereon being in
uppercase until the getty dies and is respawned. Colours are non-existant
and the first bash prompt is also blank.

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Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 bernard tty4

bernard login: BERNARD
PASSWORD:
LAST LOGIN: SUN OCT 15 22:20:35 2000 ON TTY3
LINUX BERNARD 2.2.17 #9 FRI SEP 29 16:02:35 WST 2000 I686 UNKNOWN

MOST OF THE PROGRAMS INCLUDED WITH THE DEBIAN GNU/LINUX SYSTEM ARE
FREELY REDISTRIBUTABLE; THE EXACT DISTRIBUTION TERMS FOR EACH PROGRAM
ARE DESCRIBED IN THE INDIVIDUAL FILES IN /USR/DOC/*/COPYRIGHT

DEBIAN GNU/LINUX COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, TO THE EXTENT
PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
NO MAIL.
                     DF
FILESYSTEM           1K-BLOCKS      USED AVAILABLE USE% MOUNTED ON
/DEV/HDA5              1035628     44444    938576   5% /
/DEV/HDA1                31077      2935     26538  10% /BOOT
/DEV/HDA6              3099108   1655820   1285856  56% /USR
/DEV/HDA7               521732    287260    207968  58% /VAR
/DEV/HDA9             14475600   2828264  10911964  21% /HOME
/DEV/HDC1              6285144   3958708   2326436  63% /C
/DEV/HDD1              3142796    952824   2189972  30% /D
[BERNARD at BERNARD ~]$ LOGOUT

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 bernard tty4

bernard login:

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Weird??? Doesnt seem to work in a telnet shell, only from a vt. Also, I
find that when the cursor is in column 64 on an 80x25 screen, it also
shows up in column 1 of the previous line. BIOS bug or Linux bug? I never
experienced it using DOS.

Anyone had either of these happen to them or have any idea what's going
on here?

Bernard.

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 Bernard Blackham
 dagobah at mad.scientist.com