"Spurious NAK on isa0060/serio0" messages

[Adam Funk]

On 2012-07-12, NoOp wrote:

> On 07/12/2012 04:00 AM, Adam Funk wrote:
>> My computer was slightly damaged a few days ago by a power spike after
>> a power cut.  A local computer store diagnosed & replaced a failed
>> capacitor.  I hooked everything back up, including my PS/2 & VGA KVM
>> switch, and now I'm seeing this kernel message in the syslog
>> 
>> atkbd serio0: Spurious NAK on isa0060/serio0. Some program might be trying access hardware directly.
>> 
>> at varying intervals but fairly consistently 3 times per minute,
>> whether I'm logged in or not.  AFAICT everything works normally.
>> 
>> Do I need to fix anything, or should I just put it in the logcheck
>> "ignore" file?
> ...
>
><https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Spurious%20NAK%20on%20isa0060%2Fserio0>

Yes, I tried that.


> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/526988
> [atkbd.c: Spurious NAK on isa0060/serio0. Some program might be trying
> access hardware directly. ]

AFAICT, the relevant bug reports for this error message are associated
with problems such as the keyboard or touchpad not working --- that's
why I put "AFAICT everything works normally." in my post.  I haven't
observed any problems but I want to know whether the syslog message
should worry me or not.