Keyboard nearly unusable, x,w,s,#,2 getting additional "~"

[John Doe]

Binary package hint: xkeyboard-config

This is on Lucid Lynx (Updated last on 01.04.)

Summary:

the System is nearly unusable since the Updates from Yesterday (31.03.) because the Keyboard runs mad.

Symptoms:

I'm not able to log in on all tty's, because I'm not able to enter the Password correctly. With GDM it works. When I press "x" in a Terminal Window, i get "x~", with the characters "w,s,x,#,2" it is the same.

In gedit, while writing, this is not happening.

Browsing is nearly impossible with FF or Chromium, every time I try to write something and hit one of the characters described above, the Page reloads. Also, I'm not able to access my gmail account.

As mentioned above, this came after the Updates from Yesterday. I'm not completly shure if the Package is right, but the only other Updates that could be the reason are "hal" and "libhal1".

This Text was created with gedit and pasted in the browserwindow. Anything else was impossble.

I've read the note about using the command "ubuntu-bug -p xkeyboard-config", but Lucid tells me that the package is unknown and the parameter -p is deprecated, so: sorry.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: xkb-data 1.8-1ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Apr 1 22:30:48 2010
Dependencies:

DkmsStatus: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100401)
MachineType: ASUSTeK Computer INC. V6V
PackageArchitecture: all
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   3.3V 32-bit PC Card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-19-generic root=UUID=f2aa3254-6601-477d-bc33-6f603cdd2162 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xkeyboard-config
dmi.bios.date: 10/12/2005
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1201
dmi.board.name: V6V
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: 2.00
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 0x00000000
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTek Computer INC.
dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1201:bd10/12/2005:svnASUSTeKComputerINC.:pnV6V:pvr1.0:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnV6V:rvr2.00:cvnASUSTekComputerINC.:ct10:cvr1.0:
dmi.product.name: V6V
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: lucid
 architecture: i686
 kernel: 2.6.32-19-generic

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Does the problem go away if you downgrade xkeyboard-config to version 1.7-2ubuntu2 or earlier?

[John Doe (jodo-deactivatedaccount)]

With the fixes from the last week it has gone. I will watch this one or two days and will post again if I can be shure that it is really away.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Thanks for letting us know the issue is resolved.

[John Doe (jodo-deactivatedaccount)]

Ok, this was a really bad mixture mostly caused by an upcoming hardware-fail. New Keyboard fixed it. I'm really sorry for waisting anybodys time here.