The most recent kernel: Plague of Fives, and fatally inefficient networking

[Temlakos]

On 09/28/2015 01:38 PM, Dan Mossor wrote:
> On 09/24/2015 02:27 PM, Temlakos wrote:
>> Everyone:
>>
>> 1. The kernel, once again, is prone to an annoying flaw: it produces a
>> Plague of Fives. Any time a text box opens up, a string of repeated
>> digits 5 appears. The only way to shut it off is to type "5" again.
>>
>> /No/, kernel group! Do /not/ tell me I have a problem with a sticking 5
>> key. If that were the problem, then pressing Shift would change
>> "55555555555..." to 5555555555%%%%%%..." It doesn't. More to the point,
>> the Plague of Fives tended to go away with the next iteration of the 
>> kernel.
>>
>> Temlakos
>
> Huh, and here I thought my "refurbished" Logitech Wave wireless 
> keyboard wasn't fully refurbished. I had a weird problem with the 5 
> key a while ago - the only way to stop it was to hit "5" on the number 
> row. No other key would stop it, and shift didn't change it. But it's 
> gone now. I think.
>

The Plague of Fives came back with the latest kernel push. Which is one 
reason I rebooted to the last known good kernel. That stopped the Plague 
of Fives, and also resolved an issue with some very slow file transfer 
across my private network.

Temlakos