Control characters and caps lock and other control characters don't work in X in Hardy Development
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
For the last 2-3 weeks in Hardy I have been having seeming random keyboard mapping issues where SHIFT and CTRL no longer seem to work after a few hours/minutes. CAPS LOCK indicator no longer lights up when pressed. Occurs in xterms, gnome-terminal and all X apps. This occurs whether using KDM/GDM (KDE/GNOME) and various window managers: openbox, fluxbox, xfce, etc. Another issue I have seen is that a small number (less than 5%) of sessions through GDM hang after login usually with GNOME. No issues with OpenBox.
Exiting out and logging in again from GDM/KDM always solves the problem until it happens again.
Hardware: Lenovo T-61
Kernel: 2.6.24-16-generic
Nothing observed in /var/log/messages or dmesg
Ran into this problem today for the first time in several weeks in the final release. Once agian, shift, control, etc. don't work also seeing an impact on GTK apps
[ 9452.519373] gksu[21455]: segfault at 00000028 eip b7b55275 esp bf9abcd0 error 4
[ 9461.928032] gksu[21491]: segfault at 00000028 eip b7bc4275 esp bffaa2c0 error 4
[ 9469.761872] gksu[21521]: segfault at 00000028 eip b7b9a275 esp bffd4af0 error 4
[ 9555.933606] grun[21738]: segfault at 00000040 eip b7b90275 esp bfdcbf70 error 4
[ 9556.276512] grun[21739]: segfault at 00000040 eip b7b56275 esp bfe0fd80 error 4
[ 9631.686037] grun[22129]: segfault at 00000040 eip b7bcb275 esp bf8e3050 error 4
[ 9631.939252] grun[22134]: segfault at 00000040 eip b7bf7275 esp bfd9fd10 error 4
[ 9632.134791] grun[22135]: segfault at 00000040 eip b7bf1275 esp bfbd6340 error 4
[ 9632.414273] grun[22136]: segfault at 00000028 eip b7bb0275 esp bfb33aa0 error 4
[ 9640.183804] gedit[22193]: segfault at 0000002a eip b76e7275 esp bff77d10 error 4