Not sure how it happened, but my droplet’s console (the browser one) is stuck in caps lock mode. How can I get it back to normal?
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×Same problem here (while setting up SSH– incredibly frustrating!)
My workaround had been to hold SHIFT for lowercase, which is fun while editing ssh_config in vim.
In case it saves someone some frustration, you can tell the console that caps lock is on with the command:
setleds -D +caps
…which will negate the confused console app. (Actual caps lock key may work, but mine is remapped to CTRL)
Oh, and yes, the problem began when I pasted my public key into the terrible console app. After failing for several minutes to configure sshd to allow password-based authentication, the ultimate solution was to put the public key in a pastebin and wget / curl it from the console.
This worked. I checked out the whole thread and am surprised more people did not settle on this, since it’s entirely within the console, and should always work.
setleds -D +caps worked for me, thank you! Finally able to ssh into my droplet, so now I never have to deal with that console again (hopefully)!
hahaha… it’s 2021 and I am cracking up that this is still the state of things. caps lock issue still around, terminal app still rediculous. +1 for the pastebin solution, its really the only way if you want to keep your sanity
Looks like rebooting the server helps. Try to login through the console (although having the caps lock stuck) and issue the reboot command: sudo reboot
You will be logged out. After the reboot login again.
Hope this helps!
Reboot was the solution for me. Unfortunately the terminal did not recognize the command when entered with caps, so I needed to reboot via droplet -> power -> powercycle. Thanks!
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This is happening to me also. Although it’s always been caps lock for me. Really strange.
This issue was posted four years ago with over 5k views, but no solution yet… I wonder how may devs have wasted hours and ultimately ditched DigitalOcean because of this.
this happened to me while i was copy pasting a mysql DDL script. Rebooting helped.
If your problem came after you copy paste in the console your public key the solution is the following:
And the solution to copy paste your public key is to copy paste chunks of it, i do it in chunks no bigger than 30 characters and it work, but you need to do it a couple of times to get your whole key.