Bash writing lots of oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooos

[michaelferrie]

Just upgraded from 12.10 to 13.04, at the end of the upgrade I restarted but now i cant log in because the screen keeps writing lots of oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooos and filling the screen, any ideas how to stop this?

PS its not the o key stuck down (-:


here are a couple of photys - bloody annoying this btw, really want to watch a movie and all i can se is ooooooooooooooooooooooooos

[oshunluvr]

Boy, never seen that before. Just to eliminate the keyboard completely, unplug it and reboot.

[michaelferrie]

Boy, never seen that before. Just to eliminate the keyboard completely, unplug it and reboot.

I tried another keyboard and rebooted, same error, i would also say when i press CTRL the ooooos stop but they resume when i lift my finger off the key. Also when i hold SHIFT or put on CAPS-LOCK they go into upper case OOOOOOOOOOOs

Creepy error indeed

[oshunluvr]

Well, the only time I had something like this occur, my daughter (age 2 at the time) had placed an orange slice on my laptop hard volume keys and closed the lid. By the time I discovered what the little bugger had done, the citric acid had shorted out the down volume key, causing a similar result as yours - different key code obviously. Mine would boot and get to the desktop, but the continuous keypress caused it to run miserably slow.

Can you boot to a different install on a USB drive? If the results are the same, you may have some sort of hardware failure.

[michaelferrie]

okay I massaged the o key and now i have an xorg error, ill mark this one as solved and start a new thread, its all about the xorg.conf and nvidia driver, the oooooooooooos mystery is over

thanks
oshunluvr