[ltp] What does blinking CapsLk light means...

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 09 Jun 2009, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 4:57 AM, Petar Milin<pmilin@ff.uns.ac.rs> wrote:
> > Hello ALL!
> > Recently, I have reported some instabilities on my T61 running
> > Debian/testing, both here and on Debian user forum. Now, I am experiencing
> > something new: blinking CapsLk light. It starts to blink, and everything is
> > frozen. Then, I need to press and hold power-button to turn off my laptop,
> > and then, after few seconds, to turn it on.
> > I do not know what does this means, but it looks a bit frightening.
> > Please, help! Is this dangerous?!?
> 
> Are you using Network Manager?  Several people on the debian user list
> have reported the same phenomenon, and traced it to that package

If you can reproduce it without any properietary drivers loaded in the
kernel, please file a bug on bugzilla.kernel.org.  There is NO WAY userspace
should crash the kernel, it is always a bug, often one with security
relevance.

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  Henrique Holschuh