Comment 19 for bug 1857392

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Dan John Cook (dnck) wrote : Re: Window manager warning: Overwriting existing binding of keysym 37 with keysym 37 (keycode 10).

Daniel,

To be honest, I'm not quite sure what this ticket is all about.

If it's just that people see these lines in their log, then surely, it's not worth having an open ticket about.

On the other hand, I'm saying that I have been investigating this for two weeks, and I can say with 95% confidence that when my laptop freezes, the very last thing I see in my syslog, and in journalctl is a spam output of these lines.

If you do a search for "keysym, ubuntu, freeze, dell, laptop", I'm pretty sure you'll be down a rabbit hole with many other people reporting similar freezes (e.g. https://itectec.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-ubuntu-19-04-stops-working/).

There's also an issue in gnome/mutter that looks like it may be closer to the origin, but I'm not sure at this point (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/606). Again, I'm just not sure.

So, other than opening a vague ticket, do you have any suggestions as to where I can track this bug to the origin. Like I said, it's really killing our company's experience (we've got several new laptops running 20.04.1 LTS and none of us are using these machines for simple browsing -- in other words, it's critical that our work is not randomly lost due to a freeze). Also, note, I noticed this bug only once with the oem kernel (whereas it happened multiple times with the generic kernel). And also, I caught it once when I was explicitly looking for it to happen when I did a key press of one of the multimedia buttons (two key presses).