Left mouse dissappears after running for a few minutes

[Agon Buchholz]

After running Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" for a couple of minutes, the left mouse key becomes unusable (e.g. clicking on objects on the GNOME desktop doesn't work anymore). The right mouse key still works, the mouse pointer is visible and can be moved as usual.

This behaviour occurs with three different USB mice (Logitech Revolution, Microsoft Wireless IntelliMouse Explorer and Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer 4.0); all thre mice are working fine on a Windows PC, so this is not an hardware issue.

I tried to switch USB ports, but this didn't resolve the issue, either.

If I connect throght SSH to this machine, I'm getting these reports:

$ uname -a
Linux athena 2.6.35-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Sun Sep 19 20:32:27 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ tail /var/log/messages
Oct 11 23:32:34 athena kernel: [ 167.890872] usb 1-2.4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
Oct 11 23:32:34 athena kernel: [ 168.009430] hub 1-2.4:1.0: USB hub found
Oct 11 23:32:34 athena kernel: [ 168.009620] hub 1-2.4:1.0: 4 ports detected
Oct 12 00:11:59 athena kernel: [ 2531.709404] usb 8-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
Oct 12 00:11:59 athena kernel: [ 2531.932992] input: Microsoft Microsoft IntelliMouse® Explorer as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb8/8-1/8-1:1.0/input/input4
Oct 12 00:11:59 athena kernel: [ 2531.933129] generic-usb 0003:045E:0095.0003: input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft IntelliMouse® Explorer] on usb-0000:00:1d.2-1/input0
Oct 12 01:46:09 athena kernel: [ 8176.785327] usb 6-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6
Oct 12 01:46:39 athena kernel: [ 8207.342045] usb 6-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 7
Oct 12 01:47:10 athena kernel: [ 8237.898680] usb 6-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 8
Oct 12 01:47:20 athena kernel: [ 8248.430649] usb 6-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 9

$ tail /var/log/syslog
Oct 12 01:59:55 athena sensord: in6: +0.05 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +4.08 V)
Oct 12 01:59:55 athena sensord: in7: +3.07 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +4.08 V)
Oct 12 01:59:55 athena sensord: Vbat: +3.22 V
Oct 12 01:59:55 athena sensord: fan1: 1339 RPM (min = 10 RPM)
Oct 12 01:59:55 athena sensord: fan2: 0 RPM (min = 0 RPM)
Oct 12 01:59:55 athena sensord: fan3: 0 RPM (min = 0 RPM)
Oct 12 01:59:55 athena sensord: fan4: 1603 RPM (min = 10 RPM)
Oct 12 01:59:55 athena sensord: temp1: 42.0 C (min = 127.0 C, max = 127.0 C)
Oct 12 01:59:55 athena sensord: temp2: 25.0 C (min = 127.0 C, max = 127.0 C)
Oct 12 01:59:55 athena sensord: temp3: 23.0 C (min = 127.0 C, max = 70.0 C)

I have no idea where to look for any useful information about this issue - please advise if there's anything you need to know. I tried to post this issue throught the "ubuntu-bug" shell command, but I'm not sure if this is gathering useful information; currently it's printing dots over the screen for several minutes.

[martin hans (martin-h-85)]

this bug occurs on my system, too.

it only occurs when I push one of the media keys on my "microsoft wired 600" keyboard. when I attach those functions to different keys they work fine, but those now un-used keys (play/louder/quieter/mute) still cause the same bug.

[Agon Buchholz (abuchholz)]

We collected locally a couple of similar bug reports <a href="http://kefk.org/node/59698">here</a> and <a href="http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/linke-maustaste-verschwindet/">here</a>, so this is not a freak incident on my system.

I can confirm the steps to reproduce provided by martin hans in #1: Pressing either the "Volume up", or the "Volume down", or the "Mute" keys on my "multimedia" keyboard ("Microsoft Digital Media Pro") disables the left mouse key. This works as well in Gnome as in KDE.

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi Agon,

Please be sure to confirm this issue exists with the latest development release of Ubuntu. ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily/current/ . If the issue remains, please run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux 658820

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[Agon Buchholz (abuchholz)]

Hi Jeremy,

thanks for looking into this. Since I am neither a kernel hacker nor a Ubuntu developer I don't know what "the latest development release of Ubuntu" would be; the images available at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily/current/ have a file date of 07-Oct-2010 which would make them *older* than a stable Ubuntu 10.10 (which was released three days later, on 10-Oct-2010). My running "Maverick" is up-to-date and most probably more recent than these one week old ISO images, so going back to a pre-release build makes no sense for me.

[Agon Buchholz (abuchholz)]

Just another thread about this issue: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1575239&highlight=ubuntu+10.10+left+mouse

[Agon Buchholz (abuchholz)]

Related issues:

* https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-evdev/+bug/636311
* https://bugs.launchpad.net/udev/+bug/637208 (Duplicate of #658820)

Most probable #658820 is also a duplicate of #658820. Geez, this is even older than "Maverick"...

[Agon Buchholz (abuchholz)]

Probably duplicate of bug #636311

[splashis (splashote)]

I'm not sure whether it is related to bug #636311.

I'm having similar issues with my mouse and in my case certain appliactions seem to be the culprishs. (VLC, Flash, banshee etc.)
See bug #673201

There seems to be a solution in the following PPA:

https://edge.launchpad.net/~raof/+archive/aubergine

[Jerry Kaukko (jerry-kaukko)]

-- See this for comment
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/673201/comments/18

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Agon Bucholz, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ .

If it remains an issue, could you please run the following command in the development release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal), as it will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report:

apport-collect -p linux <replace-with-bug-number>

Also, could you please test the latest upstream kernel available following https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds ? It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Please do not test the daily folder, but the one all the way at the bottom. Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please comment on which kernel version specifically you tested. If this bug is fixed in the mainline kernel, please add the following tags:
kernel-fixed-upstream
kernel-fixed-upstream-VERSION-NUMBER

where VERSION-NUMBER is the version number of the kernel you tested. For example:
kernel-fixed-upstream-v3.11-rc5

This can be done by clicking on the yellow circle with a black pencil icon next to the word Tags located at the bottom of the bug description. As well, please remove the tag:
needs-upstream-testing

If the mainline kernel does not fix this bug, please add the following tags:
kernel-bug-exists-upstream
kernel-bug-exists-upstream-VERSION-NUMBER

As well, please remove the tag:
needs-upstream-testing

If you are unable to test the mainline kernel, please comment as to why specifically you were unable to test it and add the following tags:
kernel-unable-to-test-upstream
kernel-unable-to-test-upstream-VERSION-NUMBER

Once testing of the upstream kernel is complete, please mark this bug's Status as Confirmed. Please let us know your results. Thank you for your understanding.

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