From: Will Mengarini <sel...@eskimo.com> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 09:49:21 -0800 > This seems more like an incipient hardware failure than a software > bug. I've been living with a flaky Logitech optical mouse for years, > and when stuff like this starts happening, I can usually make it > stop by unplugging the mouse then plugging it back in. Sometimes > it takes several tries, or various forms of percussive engineering.
Thanks! Replaced the old PS-2 mouse with a USB yesterday a.m. and haven't seen the problem since. I should have thought of hardware. Solid state junctions degrade until one of them develops intermittent failures depending on temperature? > You might find relevant error messages in </var/log/syslog>. OK; will compare broken and working cases. Thanks again, ... P. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Medical_Machines https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon Tel: +1 604 670 0140 Bcc: peter at easthope. ca