All buttons (including power) stop to work

[Hans Hellén]

Binary package hint: acpid

There got about 2700 ACPI related rows into kernel log during 1 h 40 minutes: http://paste.ubuntu.com/606043/ . Then the keyboard stopped to work: probably because I pushed accidentally many times (about five) very quickly a right shift or Ctrl or €-key next to up and left arrow keys. The €-key is not recognised by Ubuntu. This has happened for years; time to report this. It happens when there is no battery installed in the laptop. It also may be related to flash player, as it was running some www stuff.

The mouse still worked, so I logged out and then tried to restart. Then the laptop jammed completely very near of the end of reboot: the display turned white (instead of going off just before going to be turned on again for POST/BIOS screen), HDD led stayed on and HDD spinning, even the power button did not work. The only option was to unplug from the wall. Then after replugging electricity the machine boots itself automatically.

The lines
May 11 11:17:56 dell-6 acpid: client connected from 3915[0:0]
May 11 11:17:56 dell-6 acpid: 1 client rule loaded
in daemon.log was probably written, when the keyboard stopped to work. http://paste.ubuntu.com/606039/

Also in messages.log there is something:
May 11 11:18:09 user3 pulseaudio[3955]: ratelimit.c: 2 events suppressed
http://paste.ubuntu.com/606046/

Also in syslog:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/606047/

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: acpid 1.0.10-5ubuntu2.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-31.61-generic 2.6.32.32+drm33.14
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-31-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed May 11 12:08:56 2011
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=fi_FI.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: acpid

[Hans Hellén (hans-hellen)]

Exactly the same as in http://paste.ubuntu.com/606043/ happened, when I was watching Youtube and adjusted screen brightness and volume by pressing very quickly special buttons in keyboard (Fn+arrow keys).

uname -a:
2.6.32-38-generic #83-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jan 4 11:13:04 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux

This complete system lock up and probably also data loss happens in about every 50th–100th hour, roughly to say. So it is a weekly nuisance.

[Hans Hellén (hans-hellen)]

Keyboard stopped to work when I adjusted volume by pressing Fn and arrow up (XF86AudioRaiseVolume) while I was watching a clip from Vimeo by Firefox. Lucid Lynx 10.04. Exactly the same errors are logged as are presented in http://paste.ubuntu.com/606043/. I'm not sure, if those logged errors happened first or did the keyboard stop to work first.

[dino99 (9d9)]

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