Comment 319 for bug 124406

Okay... that last point needed a comment of its own - now to look at the other issues raised.

1.) "Touch base about this with Ajax to find if he has any experimental branches, or if he knows if anyone else is working on the problem, and how you can help." - It never occurred to me that any experimental threaded branches might exist! I'll be in touch with him, thanks for that.
(Though, given the bug's intermittency, I don't think anyone's going to have a reliable, repetitive test case as described - it'll be a matter of seeing if intervals of x days pass without the symptom recurring.)

2.) "Maybe Wayland will gain a better system for handling keyboard events" - Bryce, can you possibly supply the name of any particular dev who would be in a position to know whether keyboard events in Wayland are being handled in a similar way to X? The possibility that this bug might survive all the way into X's successor is quite a horrific one!

3.) For other people who, like me, are trying Marius's workaround - you should know that he had to file another bug, in that changing the keyboard delay setting in /etc/kbd/config had no effect (meaning, presumably, that he had to change it in the terminal every time he booted up.)

(Actually, I'm noticing it seems to have created a new bug in my case - pressing Enter once seems to be interpreted as pressing Enter several times on some occasions - although the key repeat stops by itself in less than a second.)

4.) Regarding post 313 - well, my keyboard certainly goes crazy daily, although I think this is probably true for most of us here. So I guess I might have a "HW-specific oddity", though not one affecting my Hardy partition.

So, to repeat my question in post 301, to file a new bug:

"Would it be sufficient to run

ubuntu-bug xorg

referencing bug 124406, and then

apport-collect (number of new bug)

or is there any more information you would need that would not be supplied by this? (if so, please specify what this would be.)"

5.) In response to Post 310's assertions regarding the severity of the bug:

"there could conceivably be some rare scenarios where this bug could cause some severe issue like a stuck delete key deleting files or whatnot"

When the issue happens at least once daily, the question is not so much whether this could be rare as how many days/weeks/months the user has before it happens - which eventually it must.

And, for versions of the bug in which pressing another key doesn't stop the repeating, it is *at least* as significant as the X crash/tie-dyed monitor, as the only way to resolve the issue is to hold down the Power button.

6.) Thanks for your help Bryce!