Very strange macbook power behavior

Hi!
I have a white macbook CoreDuo 2G.
A week ago the light from the power adapter's magsafe connection went off and the computer stopped getting power.
A few hours before this, I had a very minor incident. Some tea got spilled on the table and reached the bottom of the computer. Only the plastic case was wet, I removed the battery and everything looked very dry inside. However, some minor drops reached the connectors, but I quickly wiped them.
The laptop worked fine for a few hours, before I noticed the magsafe's light off.
I've tested the power adapter and the battery and they worked fine on another computer. Then I changed the magsafe board connector (from inside the macbook) with a new one.
Now the macbook has a weird power "behavior":
- When I connect the magsafe with the battery inside the laptop, the computer gets no power.
- If I remove the battery, the light turns green. If I put the battery back, it will charge normally.
Basically the power doesn't get to the computer unless the battery is removed when the magsafe is connected.
Like I said I tested the battery and, beside the fact that is at 60% capacity, it works fine on another computer.
Do you have any idea what can cause this and how can I fix it?
Thank you.

Something new just happen. I have a big X in the battery icon.
"No batteries available"

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    dbus.service loaded active running D-Bus System Message Bus
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    systemd-journald.service loaded active running Journal Service
    systemd-logind.service loaded active running Login Service
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    syslog.socket loaded active running Syslog Socket
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    network.target loaded active active Network
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    sound.target loaded active active Sound Card
    swap.target loaded active active Swap
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    syslog.target loaded active active Syslog
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    JOB = Pending job for the unit.
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  • Very strange FF3/Opera behavior

    Hi there,
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  • Very strange  Viber's behavior under iOS 5.1.1..

    Hello guys,
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    Hi,
    This is a member of the Viber R&D Team!
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    Thank in advance.
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  • Very strange Time Machine behavior

    Lo,
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    Oct  5 09:07:05 macmini com.apple.backupd[30151]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Macintosh HD2/Backups.backupdb
    Oct  5 09:07:34 macmini com.apple.backupd[30151]: Backup content size: 274.1 GB excluded items size: 74.3 GB for volume Server HD
    Oct  5 09:07:34 macmini com.apple.backupd[30151]: 239.73 GB required (including padding), 410.13 GB available
    Oct  5 09:07:34 macmini com.apple.backupd[30151]: Waiting for index to be ready (101)
    Oct  5 10:07:23 macmini com.apple.backupd[30151]: Copied 134.9 GB of 199.8 GB, 635075 of 755583 items
    Oct  5 10:29:50 macmini com.apple.backupd[30151]: Copied 749494 files (197.9 GB) from volume Server HD.
    Oct  5 10:33:40 macmini com.apple.backupd[30151]: 1.30 GB required (including padding), 210.02 GB available
    Oct  5 10:40:15 macmini com.apple.backupd[30151]: Copied 353532 files (73.0 MB) from volume Server HD.
    Oct  5 10:46:39 macmini com.apple.backupd[30151]: Starting post-backup thinning
    Oct  5 10:46:39 macmini com.apple.backupd[30151]: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
    Oct  5 10:46:39 macmini com.apple.backupd[30151]: Backup completed successfully.
    That looks okay (200Gb in 1.5 hours) but above log already contains a sign of a problem. This gets more obvious with the subsequent incrementals:
    Oct  5 10:53:59 macmini com.apple.backupd[31344]: Starting standard backup
    Oct  5 10:53:59 macmini com.apple.backupd[31344]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Macintosh HD2/Backups.backupdb
    Oct  5 10:58:26 macmini com.apple.backupd[31344]: 1.27 GB required (including padding), 209.82 GB available
    Oct  5 11:05:07 macmini com.apple.backupd[31344]: Copied 353545 files (71.6 MB) from volume Server HD.
    Oct  5 11:09:14 macmini com.apple.backupd[31344]: 1.28 GB required (including padding), 209.54 GB available
    Oct  5 11:15:40 macmini com.apple.backupd[31344]: Copied 353545 files (76.1 MB) from volume Server HD.
    Oct  5 11:22:16 macmini com.apple.backupd[31344]: Starting post-backup thinning
    Oct  5 11:22:16 macmini com.apple.backupd[31344]: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
    Oct  5 11:22:17 macmini com.apple.backupd[31344]: Backup completed successfully.
    Euh? So it thinks it still needs to copy >350000 files (being 1.27 Gb) and in the end it only copied 76.1 Mb.
    This now continues every hour:
    Oct  5 12:20:08 macmini com.apple.backupd[32497]: Starting standard backup
    Oct  5 12:20:08 macmini com.apple.backupd[32497]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Macintosh HD2/Backups.backupdb
    Oct  5 12:24:39 macmini com.apple.backupd[32497]: 1.20 GB required (including padding), 209.25 GB available
    Oct  5 12:31:22 macmini com.apple.backupd[32497]: Copied 353553 files (1.1 MB) from volume Server HD.
    Oct  5 12:35:46 macmini com.apple.backupd[32497]: 1.20 GB required (including padding), 209.20 GB available
    Oct  5 12:42:32 macmini com.apple.backupd[32497]: Copied 353557 files (629 KB) from volume Server HD.
    Oct  5 12:48:56 macmini com.apple.backupd[32497]: Starting post-backup thinning
    Oct  5 12:48:56 macmini com.apple.backupd[32497]: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
    Oct  5 12:48:57 macmini com.apple.backupd[32497]: Backup completed successfully.
    Also note that it took 28 minutes to copy about 2 Mb.
    I used TimeTracker to see what actually got copied and in fact it did copy about 2 Mb. Not 1.20 GB.
    What could cause this behavior?
    Marc.

    Even if I exclude ~ (= /Users/<myname>) totally, it continues and even gets worse:
    Oct  5 14:03:45 macmini com.apple.backupd[33635]: Starting standard backup
    Oct  5 14:03:45 macmini com.apple.backupd[33635]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Macintosh HD2/Backups.backupdb
    Oct  5 14:05:09 macmini com.apple.backupd[33635]: Waiting for index to be ready (101)
    Oct  5 14:09:41 macmini com.apple.backupd[33635]: 560.9 MB required (including padding), 209.38 GB available
    Oct  5 14:15:07 macmini com.apple.backupd[33635]: Copied 134864 files (481 KB) from volume Server HD.
    Oct  5 14:17:50 macmini com.apple.backupd[33635]: 593.4 MB required (including padding), 209.31 GB available
    Oct  5 14:21:46 macmini com.apple.backupd[33635]: Copied 134864 files (209 KB) from volume Server HD.
    Oct  5 14:32:34 macmini com.apple.backupd[33635]: Starting post-backup thinning
    Oct  5 14:32:34 macmini com.apple.backupd[33635]: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
    Oct  5 14:32:34 macmini com.apple.backupd[33635]: Backup completed successfully.
    30 minutes for 700 KB...   134864 files ?????

  • Very strange power problem...

    Hey guys (and girls ofcourse),
    I'm having a very strange power problem with my late 2007 2.2Ghz santa rosa macbook.
    Can you guys help me determine what the problem could be?
    Here's what happened prior, when the macbook was still working. I got home from work, plugged my adapter into the wall, and it started charging. I left it on the table, and when I came back from the diner table I continued working, but suddenly noticed my macbook wasn't charging anymore. (the orange/green led wasn't lighting up but i was able to work on battery power)
    I thought it was the poweradapter, so I went to the apple store the next day to lend one to test it. That didn't work, so it's not the adapter.
    So then I started thinking it must be the magnetic DC connector. So I ordered that from the guys at ifixit, (since it's out of warranty) but I replaced it and it's not working.
    I don't think it's the logic board, because I was able to continue working until I ran out of battery power. And I also don't think it's the battery connector, because if i'm not mistaking, the macbook can run without battery as well, but mine can't anymore.
    Now I can't get any life out of my mac anymore...
    Might there be something I overlooked?
    Any suggestions are definately welcome!
    Thanks a lot.
    Timo from Belgium.

    Hi Timo,
    I think i have the same problem, my mac is not working without battery in it. and it wont charge it.
    i wrote a post here http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2105648&tstart=0
    let me know if you have fixed the problem
    thanks

  • I'm using Apple Mail 2.1.3 on a MacBook running OS 10.4.11. A very strange thing is happening. E-mail messages that I either sent or received months ago are showing up in my mailbox and receivers' mailboxes. Help!

    I'm using Apple Mail 2.1.3 on a MacBook running OS 10.4.11. A very strange thing is happening. E-mail messages that I either sent or received months ago are showing up in my mailbox and receivers' mailboxes. In one case, a message someone had sent to me wound up in the mailbox of a third person, who was not included in the address list!!  I have only two accounts, and have checked everything; only one account is showing the repeats Now, that account is my professional account, and it resides in three places: I use it on the laptop described here, I use it through Apple Mail on the much newer desktop Mac in my office, and I can run it through Web mail on my employer's server, which is where the professional account resides (I have a mailbox there, etc.) That program is called Zimbra.
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    What IS going on here?? My friends, colleagues, and students (I teach college) are mystified by these ancient messages.
    Thanks for any help!!

    I'm using Apple Mail 2.1.3 on a MacBook running OS 10.4.11. A very strange thing is happening. E-mail messages that I either sent or received months ago are showing up in my mailbox and receivers' mailboxes. In one case, a message someone had sent to me wound up in the mailbox of a third person, who was not included in the address list!!  I have only two accounts, and have checked everything; only one account is showing the repeats Now, that account is my professional account, and it resides in three places: I use it on the laptop described here, I use it through Apple Mail on the much newer desktop Mac in my office, and I can run it through Web mail on my employer's server, which is where the professional account resides (I have a mailbox there, etc.) That program is called Zimbra.
    My personal account is with Earthlink and is not doing the repeats. I access it either through my MacBook's Apple Mail or the Web; the Apple Mail on my office Mac is not configured to access the Earthlink server.
    What IS going on here?? My friends, colleagues, and students (I teach college) are mystified by these ancient messages.
    Thanks for any help!!

  • I upgraded to mountain lion a week ago and now on startup of my macbook pro, microsoft excel and word start up automatically and then crash? very strange can anyone please help? I have checked the login items under users and groups and there is nothing.

    I upgraded to mountain lion a week ago and now on startup of my macbook pro, microsoft excel and word start up automatically and then crash? very strange can anyone please help? I have checked the login items under users and groups and there is nothing.

    Are you using the Office for Mac 2011 version, as you need to do?  The Office for Mac 2004 is Not at all compatible with Mountain Lion, and the 2008 version has been noted to have some problems running with ML.
    Hope this helps

  • MacBook Pro - Battery behaving very strangely

    I have noticed there are already many threads on this, couldn't decide which one to post in so am starting a new one.
    I have a MBP 2.33 C2D 17" from late 2006. Last year I experienced the 'expanding battery' problem, my battery totally warped out of shape and was not working properly. After a fair bit of trouble with Apple France (who basically said, too bad, buy a new one), I eventually was able to go above their heads and get Apple to send me a free replacement. This seemed fair seeing as I had bought my MBP within the timeframe of an official battery recall published on the Apple site. The new battery worked absolutely fine, and is now still less than a year old.
    Recently though, it has started to behave very strangely. I hadn't made any connection that it could be to do with having upgraded to Snow Leopard, but in retrospect, after reading many of the threads here, it does seem likely that this is the case.. I recently did a big upgrade from Tiger to SL on this very machine, and it has been since then that I've had very erratic battery behaviour.
    My symptoms are similar to many I've read here: The remaining battery time (when not connected to AC) will jump from say 3 hours down to 15 mins very suddenly. Then sometimes it will jump back up again. Sometimes my battery health condition will say 'replace now', other times 'replace soon' or other times 'normal'. Also, sometimes the machine will just go to sleep with no warning, even when it had estimated more than an hour of battery time left.. upon reconnection to AC, suddenly it says 0%.
    I have always been careful to power cycle the battery properly, to let it run down regularly. Also since noticing this problem, the first thing I tried to do was recalibrate.. But I've tried twice now with no success. I let the machine run right down till it went to sleep, then left it on overnight, waiting for the power LED to stop flashing on the front of the machine.. But it wouldn't stop flashing even after being left off overnight. I have yet to try an SMC reset, will do that next.
    I realize my battery is not brand new, nor is my computer. However, this was a replacement battery I received less than a year ago. I'll put the battery stats below, but I'm not sure I believe them because I've been checking what is says a lot recently and sometimes it even shows a full charge capacity of a negative number! Something strange is going on here. I obviously don't expect full performance from a battery nearly a year old, but what it's doing here seems to be more than just a case of a battery getting old, especially having seen that many other users are having a similar set of symptoms after going to Snow Leopard.
    Model Information:
    Manufacturer: SMP
    Device name: ASMB014
    Pack Lot Code: 0002
    PCB Lot Code: 0000
    Firmware Version: 0110
    Hardware Revision: 0500
    Cell Revision: 0102
    Charge Information:
    Charge remaining (mAh): 2453
    Fully charged: Yes
    Charging: No
    Full charge capacity (mAh): 2453
    Health Information:
    Cycle count: 396
    Condition: Replace Now
    Battery Installed: Yes
    Amperage (mA): 0
    Voltage (mV): 12597
    Any suggestions appreciated..
    Cheers.

    I just got off a call with Apple support. The tech agreed that my symptoms were not normal, even for a battery with a cycle count over 300 like mine.. especially with the fact that the system profiler is showing bizarre info that makes no sense such as a full charge of a negative number. He said that basically the only thing I can try is to do an archive and reinstall of Snow Leopard, since it seems that the operating system is possibly corrupted. I don't think it's anything to do with the physics of the battery, it is more likely that the OS is not interacting properly with the battery, thus giving false and conflicting readings and information.. He seemed quite certain that it can't be a problem with Snow Leopard itself, seeing as all of the laptops in the Apple Support office were on SL and did not have this problem. So in his opinion, a corrupted OS was the most likely explanation. In any case, he said that batteries are only covered by a 90 day guarantee, so if it turns out that after a reinstall, my problem doesn't go away, then I'll have no choice but to buy a new battery because they won't cover it... This doesn't seem very fair to me because if it turns out that the OS has nothing to do with it, then it must be a faulty battery, because this kind of behaviour is certainly not what I'd call acceptable for a battery of less than a year old.
    Anyway, I'll perhaps try the archive and install process on the weekend and see what happens.

  • VERY strange behavior - HELP!

    I don't know if anyone can help, but I have had some VERY strange Powerbook this afternoon while doing some Word processing. I was doing a quick search on the internet, when web pages would not load and applications became EXTREMELY SLOW. It was almost as if I had lost my internet connection, but everything was fully connected and fine. Anything action that I took brought up the spinning pinwheel of death. After force quitting all of my apps. and trying to restart, I continued to get the spinning wheel. After leaving the PB for nearly five minutes, the wheel was still spinning and restart did not happen.
    I finally held down the power button until it shut down. After restart, I repaired permissions and received the following, which I thought was strange:
    Disk Utility started.
    Repairing permissions for “Macintosh HD”
    Determining correct file permissions.
    parent directory ./Users/Shared/SC Info does not exist
    We are using special permissions for the file or directory ./Library/Widgets. New permissions are 16877
    Permissions differ on ./private/var/log/secure.log, should be -rw------- , they are -rw-r-----
    Owner and group corrected on ./private/var/log/secure.log
    Permissions corrected on ./private/var/log/secure.log
    We are using special permissions for the file or directory ./usr/lib/php/build/acinclude.m4. New permissions are 33060
    I understand the "special permissions" is due to the latest security update, but the secure.log concerns me. Any ideas?
    Here is part of the system log as well. Any help would be much appreciated. Based on the sys.log towards the bottom, it almost looks as if there was some kind of attempted security breech on the system?
    Thanks,
    Joe B
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: [start] 1
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: HFS: Removed 2 orphaned unlinked files
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: Jettisoning kernel linker.
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: Resetting IOCatalogue.
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 0
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 4
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 4
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 4
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 4
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: IPv6 packet filtering initialized, default to accept, logging disabled
    Sep 24 18:46:45 localhost kernel[0]: UniNEnet: Ethernet address 00:0d:93:2e:08:f6
    Sep 24 18:46:45 localhost kernel[0]: AirPortPCI_MM: Ethernet address 00:0d:93:8c:43:18
    Sep 24 18:46:45 localhost DirectoryService[43]: Launched version 2.0.2 (v350.2)
    Sep 24 18:46:45 localhost diskarbitrationd[38]: disk0s3 hfs F03FF213-49C4-3229-9807-105BFEB2EF16 Macintosh HD /
    Sep 24 18:46:47 localhost kernel[0]: [HCIController][setupHardware] AFH Is Supported
    Sep 24 18:46:47 localhost lookupd[67]: lookupd (version 365) starting - Sat Sep 24 18:46:47 2005
    Sep 24 18:46:47 localhost mDNSResponder: Adding browse domain local.
    Sep 24 18:46:47 localhost configd[36]: WirelessConfigure: 88001003
    Sep 24 18:46:47 localhost configd[36]: initCardWithStoredPrefs failed.
    Sep 24 18:46:47 localhost configd[36]: WirelessConfigure: 88001003
    Sep 24 18:46:49 localhost kernel[0]: ATY,Jasper_A: vram [b8000000:08000000]
    Sep 24 18:46:50 localhost kernel[0]: ATY,Jasper_B: vram [b8000000:08000000]
    Sep 24 18:46:50 localhost /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow: Login Window Application Started
    Sep 24 18:46:51 localhost loginwindow[70]: Login Window Started Security Agent
    Sep 24 18:46:56 jbiedlin configd[36]: setting hostname to "jbiedlin.local"
    Sep 24 18:46:57 jbiedlin kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Active: "ARM Wireless" - 00112402fb57 - chan 1
    Sep 24 18:46:57 jbiedlin configd[36]: AppleTalk startup
    Sep 24 18:47:00 jbiedlin launchd: Server 0 in bootstrap 1103 uid 0: "/usr/sbin/lookupd"[67]: exited abnormally: Hangup
    Sep 24 18:4

    All,
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    Sep 24 17:42:55 jbiedlin configd[36]: AppleTalk startup complete
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost lookupd[44]: lookupd (version 365) starting - Sat Sep 24 18:46:44 2005
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: vmpagebootstrap: 253637 free pages
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: migtable_maxdispl = 70
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: 95 prelinked modules
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost mDNSResponder-107 (Mar 20 2005 20: 31:47)[46]: starting
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: using 2621 buffer headers and 2621 cluster IO buffer headers
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: IOPCCard info: Intel PCIC probe: TI 1510 rev 00
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: FireWire (OHCI) Apple ID 31 built-in now active, GUID 000d93ff fe2e08f6; max speed s800.
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: CSRHIDTransitionDriver::probe
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: CSRHIDTransitionDriver::start before command
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: ADB present:8c
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: Security auditing service present
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: BSM auditing present
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: disabled
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: rooting via boot-uuid from /chosen: F03FF213-49C4-3229-9807-105BFEB2EF16
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: Waiting on <dict
    ID="0"><key>IOProviderClass</key><string
    ID="1">IOResources</string><key>IOResourceMatch</key><string
    ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict>
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: Got boot device =
    IOService:/MacRISC2PE/pci@f4000000/AppleMacRiscPCI/ata-6@D/AppleKauaiA
    TA/ATADeviceNub@0/IOATABlockStorageDriver/IOATABlockStorageDevice/IOBl
    ockStorageDriver/FUJITSU MHT2080AT
    Media/IOApplePartitionScheme/Untitled@3
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: BSD root: disk0s3, major 14, minor 2
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: jnl: replay_journal: from: 6615552 to: 3109888 (joffset 0x8601000)
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: CSRHIDTransitionDriver::stop
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: [HCIController][start]
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: [AppleUSBHCIController][StopIsochPipeRead] - mInt1IsochInPipe = 0 - numReadsPending = 0
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    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: HFS: Removed 2 orphaned unlinked files
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: Jettisoning kernel linker.
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: Resetting IOCatalogue.
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 0
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 4
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 4
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 4
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 4
    Sep 24 18:46:44 localhost kernel[0]: IPv6 packet filtering initialized, default to accept, logging disabled
    [ Edited by Apple Discussions Moderator; wrap long lines ]

  • [SOLVED]Very strange laptop behavior: keymap changing on fly

    I have had arch up and running on my Lenovo T440s without issue for over 2 months now.  Today I ran into some very strange behavior.  After being on for about 45 minutes, with only a browser and thunderbird running, the keyboard started being selective in which keys woud work.  I could no longer mange the windows with my normal AwesomeWM key bindings.  The only thing I could do was restart by turning off and back on.  I checked journalctl and there had been a weird message around the time the error occured, something along the lines of "HKEY error 0x600, unknown thermal alarm or keyboard input".
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    Dave
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