Key repeats forever if a shell popover steals focus during a keypress

[Matthias Klose]

This is a regression not seen until this week (not seen until March 4 at least). Calling debsign from a terminal pops up the window to enter the key, but the terminal is sent continuous <Return> keys and the terminal scrolls down with empty input lines. You can still sign the file, however you end up with an empty scroll buffer if the signing takes too long time.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. Is that in a standard Ubuntu session, under x11 or wayland? could you attach the journalctl log from around the time of the problem?

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

I experienced a similar issue today. I ran `snap install app` in my terminal. It popped up a PolicyKit login window and my terminal started filling with empty input lines.

Around the same time, I had this in my journal log repeatedly:

gnome-shell: Object 0x5614373df110 of type IBusText has been finalized while it was still owned by gjs, this is due to invalid memory management.

Therefore, I'm reassigning to gnome-shell and ibus. I don't think this issue is specific to gnome-terminal. You might eventually see it with a different terminal.

I am using the default Ubuntu session on Wayland.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

The log message in comment #2 is bug 1965673. I'm seeing it in everyone's logs today, including my own. And without using password dialogs. So unassigning ibus here. Use bug 1965673 for that.

[Alex Murray (alexmurray)]

I personally don't think this should be low priority - this affects any application which ends up causing the gnome shell prompt dialog to appear - so in my case when reading my email and opening a GPG encrypted email I get prompted for my GPG passphrase - whilst this is happening my email client is repeatedly getting <Return> sent to it, causing it to advance forward to the next email and mark the current one as read - so this has a real usability impact IMO. This is not just relevant to terminal applications etc.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

It might be related to https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/2189 but ideally someone should (please) open a new upstream bug to be sure: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues

[Alex Murray (alexmurray)]

Upstream bug filed https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/5242

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Daniel, could you work on this one?

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

The conversation is mostly in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/2194 now.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package mutter - 42.0-3ubuntu1

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mutter (42.0-3ubuntu1) jammy; urgency=medium

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * debian/patches: Cherry-pick various upstream commits for 42.1:
    + onscreen/native: Fall back if COPY_MODE_SECONDARY_GPU fails to init
      (LP: #1964037, #1959888)
  * debian/patches: Allow any drag timestamp as drag start serial (LP: #1964541)
  * debian/patches: Move x11-fractional scaling under ubuntu namespace
  * debian/patches: Account ClutterStage grabs on Wayland key focus sync
    (LP: #1964442)
  * debian/libmutter-10-0.symbols: Update including new internal symbols
  * debian/patches: Avoid memory errors when comparing gamma values
  * debian/patches: Fix privacy-screen and connectors updates with
    triple-buffering (LP: #1966178)
  * debian/patches: Ensure privacy screen settings are applied on startup
    (LP: #1966178)

  [ Jeremy Bicha ]
  * Merge from Debian unstable. Remaining changes:
    - debian/patches/x11-Add-support-for-fractional-scaling-using-Randr.patch:
      + X11: Add support for fractional scaling using Randr
    - Add triple-buffering patch
    - debian/libmutter-10-0.symbols: Add symbols for triple buffering patch
    - ubuntu/wayland-data-device-Allow-any-drag-timestamp-as-drag-star.patch:
      + handle DnD for old (snapped) gtk apps that used wrong wayland serials

mutter (42.0-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * debian/patches: Cherry-pick upstream fixes targeting 42.1
  * debian/patches: Ensure repick happens on actors visibility changed
    (LP: #1964545)

  [ Jeremy Bicha ]
  * Release to unstable

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <email address hidden> Wed, 13 Apr 2022 03:30:39 +0200