While the keyboard problem was substantially repeatable (I started and 
restarted the VM several times), it went away after a hard reboot of the 
machine.

Any thoughts?

On Saturday, May 12, 2001, at 09:25 AM, Andrew C. Greenberg wrote:

> While typing today, I experienced some very peculiar behavior in my 
> image.
>
> 1. All of a sudden, keyboard input appears garbled, showing only 
> squares and occasional greek letters (like Beta) on my Pismo.
>
> 2. The problem is solely related to input -- everything else is 
> displaying fine.
>
> 3. The keys are not being properly entered: typing 3+3 and command-P 
> yields syntax errors.
>
> 4. Interestingly, command keys seem to be properly recognized, I can 
> cut and paste using key commands just fine.
>
> 5. Sadly, I saved the image while in this state.  My machine is 
> otherwise behaving fine.  Restarting the VM didn't help.
>