caps lock turned on automatically from time to time

[Sven 'Darkman' Michels]

Binary package hint: xorg

Hi,

since upgrade to lucid i got this problem more often and more "dramatically":
From time to time it looks like caps lock is enabled (without showing the caps light btw!): LIKE AT THE MOMENT *NARF*
I CANNOT TURN IT OFF (BUT if i turn caps lock on -> light turns on, letters are normally again). As you can see, the caps turned off at "BUT" by itself. This is not a joke, its really annoying. It takes up to a few minutes till the problem is gone.
The following didn't help:
- typing setxkbmap into a terminal (was suggested in some forum)
- switching windows / turn off some random running programs like openoffice, firefox, thunderbird, whatever
- slapping the keyboard
- buying a new keyboard...
- switching from a ps/2 to a usb keyboard (so ps/2 port is fine, too)
- pull keyboard and push again in (so kind of a "reset")
- pressing nearly all keys didn't help, too.

So this simply sucks (sorry). I stops me from working from time to time, since even with pressed caps lock key, i only can type the normal letters, signs like . or , are always upper case, so : or ;.

I don't know where the problem comes from, i also asked at irc a few days ago, but only suggestions like replacing keyboard, which i have done yet, doesn't help.

I got one error message once(!) when the problem occoured: atkbd.c: Spurious NAK on isa0060/serio1. Some program might be trying access hardware directly.

so something seems to be there, but i don't know what.

The problem occoured on 09.10, too, but only for one letter from time to time (so i didn't notice the most of the time, only when having a vnc/rdp session to some windows box for example, because after a few times pressing the shift key, you'll get some notice about enable some helping key functions or something like that).

would be nice to get this fixed...

REGARDS::: AND THERE IT IS AGAIN:::(CRAP)

SVEN

PS:
ha! i swtiched to console -> but not there, switched back to x -> problem gone too - but this might not help and maybe the bug was gone by itself again, but i'll try this again when it happens again, which will be within the next minutes/hours i guess..)

PPS: this is the third time i try to report this bug, the other two times i just got an oops from launchpad...

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: xorg 1:7.5+5ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.43-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 529567412f7cf72e78b4d511499cb70e
CheckboxSystem: 7bd8da88dafd60871851ac52e3ae8049
Date: Tue Sep 28 14:39:41 2010
DkmsStatus:
 nvidia-current, 195.36.24, 2.6.31-22-generic, i686: installed
 nvidia-current, 195.36.24, 2.6.32-24-generic, i686: installed
Lsusb:
 Bus 002 Device 004: ID 046a:0023 Cherry GmbH CyMotion Master Linux Keyboard
 Bus 002 Device 003: ID 046d:c00e Logitech, Inc. M-BJ58/M-BJ69 Optical Wheel Mouse
 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:08b2 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Pro 4000
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: ECS GF7050VT-M5
ProcCmdLine: root=/dev/md0 ro quiet splash locale=de_DE
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE:de:en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
dmi.bios.date: 07/07/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 080015
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: GF7050VT-M5
dmi.board.vendor: ECS
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: ECS
dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr080015:bd07/07/2008:svnECS:pnGF7050VT-M5:pvr1.0:rvnECS:rnGF7050VT-M5:rvr1.0:cvnECS:ct3:cvr1.0:
dmi.product.name: GF7050VT-M5
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: ECS
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: lucid
 architecture: i686
 kernel: 2.6.32-24-generic

[Sven 'Darkman' Michels (sven+launchpad)]

Hi,

i tried the switch between console and x and it seems indeed to fix the problem. So it looks like a bug in xorg or maybe some gnome stuff...

Regards,
Sven

[Johann Juraschek (secondhirn)]

Man i have the very same problem on my machine to!!! also changed Keyboards...

[Sven 'Darkman' Michels (sven+launchpad)]

After a long long time of fiddling around with this bug, at least for me i tracked the issue down to:
tvtime

When using tvtime, the problem appeared from time to time, without it, it never happened again.

So it might be related to tvtime only.

Regards,
Sven

[Barry Kelly (bkelly-ie)]

I saw this happen when I tried to log in to my work system this morning, having been on over the long weekend.

Caps-lock was on, and typing my password was rather awkward as a result.

I have cap-lock bound to Control on this keyboard - there is no key mapped to caps lock, so it cannot have been the keyboard.

I had to use a Python script, that directly called libX11, found on stackoverflow to turn off caps lock.

[dino99 (9d9)]

That version is no more supported; please open a new bug report if the actual archive found version also has the same issue.