there is nothing lucky about elephants
A long time ago, some one very close to me brought back from India,
a carved wooden
elephant, it will bring
me good luck I was assured.
I Wanted to try out the latest Debian
installer
which now has a gui interface and the ability to encrypt
partitions. I was curious to try out the encryption more-so than
the gui. I booted the cdrom and got to the stage where one chooses
what type of system to install, I chose Desktop which pulls in both
KDE and Gnome, plus all the standard stuff one would expect a
distro to include. 620-something packages. About an hour's worth of
downloading.
Everything was set in motion, taskel went to work and starting
grabbing packages. I decided a cup of tea was in order and got up
from my chair. The arm rest of the chair was underneath my desk and
somehow bumped my desk as I got up, this shook the desk and
launched the elephant from the top of my monitor down the back of
my desk and onto the floor. The elephant then landed
right on
the power button of my power-bar thingy that the router was
plugged into with enough force to turn off the power-bar. the
installer froze of course and I now have to do it all over
again.
I have to confess that part of yesterdays problem with not being
able to login locally on the console to my server stems from the
fact that the keyboard was actually plugged into the mouse port :-)
I was tail'ing /var/log/messages when I plugged it in and saw
Aug 14 00:58:28 localhost kernel: psmouse.c: Explorer Mouse
at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 2 bytes
away. I actually thought to myself that it was odd that the
system saw the keyboard as a mouse but didn't clue in to what I had
done. Now that the KB is in the right plug, I thought my problems
would be over but that wasn't the case. The image as it turns out
is in my
~/Mail/attachments directory, so at least I
know where it came from, but I still cannot get rid of it and
respawning
getty
does nothing to fix it.
