On Sunday 01 November 2015 12:42:54 pm Felmon Davis wrote:
> greets!
>
> took a laptop out I haven't used for about a month or so but which had
> been my daily machine, Thinkpad x120e.
>
> I couldn't get in via the password. I sensed the advent of senility
> until I determined it wasn't registering the underscore. I booted off
> a livecd and chrooted in, removed underscore from the pw and got in
> normally.
>
> I made sure the keyboard was set to US english (intl) but I still
> couldn't use grsync! that is, it wouldn't take the pw to my NAS which
> also has underscores. not sure right now what other keys were wrong.
> it replaces the underscore with hyphens.
>
> so I'm guessing gnome stuff got scrambled. I use Hare's exegnu. I'm on
> jessie.
>
> I'm hoping there's a quick command-line fix.
>
> what caused this, I don't know but I assume some hard-drive blip.
>
> f.

The underscore and hyphen are on the same physical key. Are you sure it's not 
just a keyboard problem?

Andy