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Whitehill

Whitehill

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I had a weird one earlier this morning. I tried to type something and got all caps. Caps lock key? Nope. Some other setting? None that I know of. So, when in doubt, restart.

Oops! There was another user logged in and it demanded an administrator name and password before it would continue the shutdown sequence. And it rejected the all caps entries.

I didn't have time to mess around any more and powered down, waited a minute or so, and powered up. All OK. Whew!

Has anyone seen this before? Is there some less drastic solution?
 
Love the thread title. I was ready to move the thread before I read it. ;) ... I must say, I've only had this happen once, and only with running Windows in Parallels Desktop (and only Windows was actually showing the problem, rebooting _that_ solved its problem, of course), so I don't think it's related.
 
I dunno. I _first_ thought it was spam of some sort, then some sort of political or juridicial comment and then I of course was already _in_ the thread reading it.
Sadly, I really don't know what could trigger a non-reversible caps-lock. You _did_ try to push caps-lock a few times when you noticed, I guess?

Maybe you can see something in the logs? Open Console.app and have a look around.
 
CAPS LOCK FAIRY?!

I've had weird issues with that before. You might try unplugging your keyboard and plugging it back in. Might have also been something related to the "Accessibility" options that got turned on my accident. I've had weird stuff happen after getting mad and taking it out on my keyboard. :)
 
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