I also have this same problem on Karmic Beta installing updates daily until Oct. 30.
jon@ubuntu:~/workspace/lrgit$ uname -a Linux ubuntu 2.6.31-14-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 14:05:01 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
jon@ubuntu:~/workspace/lrgit$ gnome-about --version GNOME gnome-about 2.28.1
jon@ubuntu:~/workspace/lrgit$ lsusb | grep Keyboard Bus 006 Device 013: ID 0a81:0205 Chesen Electronics Corp. PS/2 Keyboard+Mouse Adapter Bus 006 Device 012: ID 05f3:0007 PI Engineering, Inc. Kin esis Advantage PRO MPC/USB Keyboard
I also have this same problem on Karmic Beta installing updates daily until Oct. 30.
jon@ubuntu: ~/workspace/ lrgit$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.31-14-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16
14:05:01 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
jon@ubuntu: ~/workspace/ lrgit$ gnome-about --version
GNOME gnome-about 2.28.1
jon@ubuntu: ~/workspace/ lrgit$ lsusb | grep Keyboard
Bus 006 Device 013: ID 0a81:0205 Chesen Electronics Corp.
PS/2 Keyboard+Mouse Adapter
Bus 006 Device 012: ID 05f3:0007 PI Engineering, Inc. Kin
esis Advantage PRO MPC/USB Keyboard