Can't enter password in lock screen after running "gnome-shell --replace"

[dmiller309]

Gnome Shell stops accepting mouse input from time to time, and when it does I run "gnome-shell --replace" to get mouse control back. After running this command, I can't log in because it's as if the ENTER key is pressed every half second on the login screen. The lock screen tells me that I typed in the wrong password and clears the password input. I can't type my password in half a second.

I can workaround this by bug pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1 which makes the lock screen's password input form stop clearing its input. This isn't the ideal workflow though because I have workarounds on workarounds.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.28.1-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu May 17 16:45:24 2018
DisplayManager: gdm3
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.shell' b'enabled-extensions' b"['<email address hidden>', '<email address hidden>']"
 b'org.gnome.shell' b'favorite-apps' redacted by apport
 b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'gtk-im-module' b"'gtk-im-context-simple'"
 b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'clock-show-seconds' b'true'
 b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'clock-show-date' b'true'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-04-10 (37 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20180228)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Sounds like this might be related to bug 1765261, which is also about the wrong characters being entered into password fields.

Maybe wait and see if the fix for that helps here.