[16946] in Hotline Meeting
ghost key presses and mouse movements generated on w20-575-75
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (gptesler@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Sun Jul 11 13:35:33 1993
From: gptesler@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: hotline@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 93 13:35:26 EDT
Hi,
First an emacs I was running from another machine was doing ^N's
indefinitely. I could press keys and they would be acted upon correctly,
and then the ^N's would continue. Eventually the ^N's stopped.
Shortly thereafter, the mouse pointer started warping roughly
7-8 character widths due left at irregular intervals, even with the mouse
completely still and my hands off it. This was happening a couple of times
a second, then a spurt every couple of minutes. Even when the mouse warps
somewhere else in the same window, keystrokes I happen to make at the
time of the warp are lost. The warp can happen with the mouse pointer
in any window, including the root window.
On athena, I had two xterms going, no applications, and one of the
xterms was rlogin'd to another machine. I had "xhost +" to give access to
that other machine. Since bogus X events generated by someone on the other
machine could theoretically cause this behavior, I checked, found that no
one else was logged on to the other machine and no unusual processes were
listed with "ps". I did "xhost -" and the warp problem continued. There
also were no unexpected processes running on w20-575-75.
Glenn Tesler
