Warning just in case ...

[SteVe Cook]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 13/10/06, Dieter Schicker <dieter.schicker at uni-graz.at> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just want to inform the list that one (or more) of the following
>> packages rendered two of our machines unusable. Already upon login the
>> keyboard went totally crazy and produced thousands of weird characters
>> and of course the bell was ringing as if you were in Vatican at Easter
>> ... ;-).
>> Rebooting into runlevel 1 and removing these packages brought the
>> machines back to normality.
>>
>> klipsi
>> kpsion
>> plptools
>> plptools-dev
>> plptools-kde
>>
>> Cheers
>> Dieter
> 
> Can anybody confirm this? Most Ubuntu users will have no idea how to
> boot into runlevel 1, diagnos, and remove those packages.
> 
> Dotan Cohen
> 
Looks like I was telling fibs in my previous post.

It takes a few minutes of use but odd things do start to happen.
Starting an application from the menu results in multiple instances 
trying to start.  Opening the terminal window the prompt just scrolls up 
the screen like the enter key is jammed.

I've tried this with KDE, XFCE and Gnome sessions and all produce 
similar results after a few minutes use.

Deleting the packages removes the problem.

SteVe