Keyboard hangs after holding down shift

[Ramon Casha]

Binary package hint: xorg

I am using Gnome 3 shell on Natty. After holding down shift for some time, the keyboard stops responding (every key that I press produces a beep - even shift etc). My accessibility features are all turned off. No dialog or notification appears on the screen. Closing applications does not work. The only option is to log off and log in again.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: xorg 1:7.6+4ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 50fcb58f5a789730a94d89e5882ae96c
CheckboxSystem: 2a6f54df59af338184485e85cbcf0d32
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,mousepoll,vpswitch,regex,animation,snap,expo,move,compiztoolbox,place,grid,imgpng,gnomecompat,wall,ezoom,workarounds,staticswitcher,resize,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,scale,session,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: None
DRM.card0.VGA.1:
 status: connected
 enabled: enabled
 dpms: On
 modes: 1920x1080 1680x1050 1280x1024 1280x1024 1152x864 1024x768 1024x768 800x600 800x600 640x480 640x480 720x400
 edid-base64: AP///////wAebaNXZIwAAAsUAQNsMBt46pU1oVlXnycOUFSlSwCzAIGAgY9xTwEBAQEBAQEBAjqAGHE4LUBYLEUA3QwRAAAaAAAA/QA4Sx5TDwAKICAgICAgAAAA/ABFMjI0MAogICAgICAgAAAA/wAwMTFUUFFKMTE5NDAKAOk=
Date: Fri May 13 06:39:59 2011
DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-04-28 16:51:51.367969
DistroCodename: natty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GraphicsCard:
 ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)] [1002:5b60] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:0302]
   Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:0303]
MachineType: Dell Inc. Dimension 4700
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=/dev/mapper/vg1-ubuntu.root ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
Renderer: Unknown
SourcePackage: xorg
UdevDb: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-28 (14 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 11/23/2004
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A05
dmi.board.name: 0M3918
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 6
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA05:bd11/23/2004:svnDellInc.:pnDimension4700:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0M3918:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct6:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Dimension 4700
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.4+bzr20110415-0ubuntu2
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.23-1ubuntu6
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.10.2-0ubuntu2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10.2-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+4ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.0-0ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.0-4ubuntu7.1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110107+b795ca6e-0ubuntu7

[Egor Korablev (vividsnow)]

got same problem in ubuntu 11.04 + gnome3 on dell inspiron 9400
also if I hold some key it will pass , but after pause with two beeps

is there any workaround without logging off? ( i can connect usb keyboard, which works normal )

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hey rcasha,

You filed this bug report against natty, but I see it's still open and
doesn't appear to have much activity recently. So, now that oneiric
is released and stable, this may be a good point for you to upgrade
and re-test if this issue is still present there.

If it's solved in the new release and you think it's worth backporting
the fix, please indicate that. Or if having the fix in the new release
is good enough, feel free to close out the bug (or let us know and we'll
close it.)

If it's not solved, leave the bug report open. I can't promise we'll
get to it (we get way more bugs filed than we can usually get to), but
your testing and feedback can help out if and when we do.

[Ramon Casha (rcasha)]

Sorry but, thanks to Unity, I no longer use Ubuntu.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for xserver-xorg-input-evdev (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]