Log in p;rob;lem

Lady Dragonfly · #1 (**permalink**) 10-23-2007, 06:30 PM

I wonder if anybody experienced any difficulty loggin' in today. I was repeatedly given a message that my user name or password were incorrect or something to that effect. Plus, while typing my user name in, a semicolon kept mysteriously appearing after some letters, so it was like L;ad;y... Somehow I managed to log in, on the forth attempt, if only to make sure I was still a member of GB. You know.

Anyway, by that time I had to go already, so I just logged out. That happened a few hours ago. I thought that was a random glitch, and perhaps it was. However, I had the same problem again, including the semicolons, just a few minutes ago. I was able to log in on the forth attempt, after checking the "cookie" window first.

I use IE 7.

swcarter · #2 (**permalink**) 10-23-2007, 11:12 PM

If semicolons keep appearing when you type, that sounds like a problem with your keyboard.

SWC

Kipi · #3 (**permalink**) 10-24-2007, 04:04 AM

Yeah, sounds more like keyboard problem, as the same problem seems to occur elsewhere as well (see the title of this thread

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Are you by perhaps using wireless keyboard? At times my wireless keyboard and mouse just goes nuts as they get some random signal from somewhere that interferes the normal behaviour...

Lady Dragonfly · #4 (**permalink**) 10-24-2007, 04:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kipi

Yeah, sounds more like keyboard problem, as the same problem seems to occur elsewhere as well (see the title of this thread

)

Are you by perhaps using wireless keyboard? At times my wireless keyboard and mouse just goes nuts as they get some random signal from somewhere that interferes the normal behaviour...

Kipi, thanks for showing so much respect for my intelligence.

I intentionally included semicolons in the title.

To emphasize the idea.

And no, this is not a wireless keyboard.
If my keyboard malfunctions, then it should happen every time I type, but this is not the case. It only happens when I try to log in. Besides, the semicolons galore is the least of my problems. I am able to log in only on a third or forth attempt (without any semicolons), checking "cookies" before I type in my name and password (if I don't check cookies at all or check them damn ones after typing in my name but before typing in my password, I get the message that I entered wrong blah-blah). And that cannot be a keyboard issue, can it?

swcarter · #5 (**permalink**) 10-24-2007, 08:25 PM

When you type in your password, you only see asterisks, so are you sure you're not getting any semicolons in there? I figured it was the semicolons that were causing your login problems.

Anyway, I have no idea why you'd only have the problem on one page at this site, and nowhere else.

SWC

Lady Dragonfly · #6 (**permalink**) 10-25-2007, 03:23 PM

The semicolons did not replace any letters, they were a surprising addition. The number of letters in my password did not change (I watched), so I assume there were no added semicolons there. And, even without them, I could not log in: I had to hit the "cookie jar" before I typed in both the name and the password.

As a matter of fact, I don't have that log in problem any more. It is gone without any action on my part. Mystery. Probably a glitch? Oh well.