Loading /tmp/kmap/blankmap

[Pigeon <pigeon@pigeonsnest.co.uk>]

One of my sarge boxes has now twice done the same extremely weird thing.

I'm using a text console and up pops output from /bin/loadkeys:
"Loading /tmp/kmap/blankmap". The keyboard then ceases to respond
apart from allowing me to switch VTs. X is still fine so I can
reactivate the keyboard by loading /etc/console/default.kmap.gz from
an xterm.

In /tmp I find a directory "kmap" containing two files, "blankmap"
containing the keyboard-cabbaging map (attached) and "origmap" 
containing output from /usr/bin/dumpkeys describing the original
map (/etc/console/default.kmap.gz). Directory and files are owned 
by root and are world-readable. They were created immediately before
the blank map was loaded.

There's nothing in /var/log/syslog at the time the files were written.
chkrootkit and rkhunter return clean results. The second time it
happened (today) I was ssh-ing to a remote machine. The first time was
a while back now and I can't remember what I was doing.

Google finds no references to the two files.

Anyone here seen this?

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keycode 100 = Alt
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