> On 03/06/2012 12:12 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote:
>> tsak is the secure attention key daemon.  The high CPU usage is probably
>> related to the debug spew that was filling your tdm.log file earlier.
>>
>> What type of keyboard do you have?  It would also be helpful to know if
>> it
>> is plugged in via USB or PS/2.
>>
>> Tim
>
> Hmm... That is a good question. I am running it on an archlinux guest in
> virtualbox. The setup was a standard install for linux x86_64 in
> virtualbox, so
> I didn't do anything funky. I'll have to see what vbox is doing. What
> standard
> file output would you like to see? lsusb,lspci, cat /proc/?. Let me know
> and
> I'll get it :)
>
> --
> David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

Actually that's enough information for me. :-)  Virtualbox emulates a PS/2
keyboard and tsak has not been very well tested on PS/2 keyboards.  I'll
need to load up a VM to debug this, so filing a BLOCKER bug report would
be a good idea.

Tim