F1 'sticks' and opens new Help windows until memory exhausted
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xorg (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
This has now happened twice on my 9.04 setup. I'm still not sure what triggers it, in fact I might be accidentally hitting the F1 key. But it certainly continued after I confirmed nothing was touching the top of keyboard so I suspect it might be completely virtual. Either way the result is that the Gnome Help window pops-up endlessly until memory is exhausted and the computer freezes. Somehow, the first time it happened, I was able to get new windows to stop appearing -- maybe I pressed lots of other keys? But this most recent time that didn't seem to work and even though I was able to initiate a logout from the FUSA dropdown, it was unable to 'compete' with the continuing window pop-ups.
Why isn't there some built-in 'safety' to limit how many times the system allows a key to register? I obviously wasn't trying to open hundreds of Help windows!
Is there some other way to track this down? Or, is it simpler just to add a generic safeguard against stuck keys?
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Dependencies:
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: gnome None [modified: /var/lib/
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: meta-gnome2
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine Ubuntu package
affects: | meta-gnome2 (Ubuntu) → ubuntu |
Changed in ubuntu: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
affects: | ubuntu → udev (Ubuntu) |
tags: | added: jaunty |
Look at the xev package ( http:// packages. ubuntu. com/search? keywords= x11-utils ), which shows the X events that are being sent from your keyboard. You could also look at the accessibility features (System -> Preferences -> Keyboard -> Accesibility) which has options for repeated key presses.
It's most likely that this is physical hardware problem.