keyboard went berserk

[lamberto rusconi]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

after downloading the last update at the first login i received the following notice
There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon.

Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work correctly.

The last error message was:

Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in.
when typing i noticed that, a part the letter keys, all the other keys like shift, ctrl alt alttgr as well as the punctuation keys didnt react normally. i would appreciate help. thanks lamberto rusconi

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Dec 23 23:07:38 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/real/RealPlayer
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-26-generic i686