[intrepid] Can't type "@" during live cd session/arrow keys don't work

[Jan Rathmann]

The following happend with intrepid daily-live 20080813.3 (amd64):

- I booted my system from the cd, choosing german as language in the boot-up menu.
- After the system was up, I started firefox
- While typing my email adress to login to launchpad, I noticed that it was not possible to type the "@" character. Usually you do this on a german keyboard by pressing AltGr+Q
- So I investigated a bit and found out, that pressing the AltGr key had the same effect than pressing enter. So also none of the other character that are typed by pressing AltGr + another Key (like the Euro sign) could be typed.
- Also I noticed soon that the arrow keys didn't work (nothing happend when I pressed one of them)
- I tried to correct this by playing around a little bit with System -> preferences -> keyboard settings but had no success. The keyboard layout was correctly set to german (the keys to enter umlauts as "ü" etc. did also work fine), as keyboard model "evdev-manged keyboard" was chosen. Setting the model to Generic-105-pc didn't help.

Strangely, the keyboard workes completely normal again on the new installed system.

Kind regards,
Jan

[Jesper Larsen (knorr)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The problem sounds a lot like the issue in bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/255008

A fix was released (13 Aug.) with the package gnome-settings-daemon - 2.23.6-0ubuntu2.

The problem should be corrected if you try a newer LiveCD. If not feel free to open a new bug report.