Compaq N600c w/ Slack 13 loaded...it's an older workhorse that began behaving oddly after the user dl'd a background image for her desktop...

on login, the laptop would spawn hundreds of terminals once producing a load avg of 40.5 -never seen that before-

as well on shutdown and startup I start seeing the appearance of the following characters ^[[[D repeated hundreds if not thousands of times on the screen, boot and shutdown will progress to completion but it's unintended behaviour, therefore suspect in my mind.

hd thorough self-test passed and memtest is not showing errors on it's second pass

opinions? SWAG's? stuck key? debris under the D key?

Hello,

^[[[D is your F4 key, unless you added too less or too many brackets. I would check your F4 key, along with your left arrow key, since the left arrow is ^[[D.

Josh

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thanks Josh...that was it...pulled the keyboard off and blew the undersides of the keys out...glitter sprays out like snow... them kids just _love_ the glitter...the N600c now happily runs -current
cheers

No problem dude!

Cheers,

Josh