(jaunty) Couldn't grab your mouse appears after starting firefox

[JD]

After a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.04 Beta, I opened Firefox and after a couple of seconds a dialog appeared saying "Could not grab your mouse", I just clicked OK and everything was fine, I cannot duplicate this bug.

I've attached a screenshot of the dialog that appeared.

[jon.grx (jon-grx)]

I get the same output when I push the Check button in the update-manager in Ubuntu 9.10. I've to use Synaptic to update my system, no automatic updates.
I think one package update is messing up my mouse configuration (may be X.org or HAL or whatever) and lefts my system unusable. Some areas of the desktop stop capturing mouse events, and the system becomes unresponsive. And it is not only the mouse, it also messed up the keyboard so that Alt+Tab is not working for me anymore (sometimes i end up with a "monotask" system, since i can't scape from the current application). This situation is really annoying, ridiculous and barely acceptable. And is not the first time it happens. I have suffered this situation with 8.10, 9.04 and 9.10.

[ic3man5 (ic3man05)]

I can verify this happens with 9.10 on an acer aspire 5100. Same description as jon.grx, seems like only a few widgets get focus and after one window is opened all mouse clicks stop working.

[[e-mail] (lil-p83)]

Hi, I've got the same problem with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
It happens mainly when I start Update Manager, and even if the program start himself.
Please, anyone knows if there is a fix?

Thank you a lot,
Pietro

[bugbot (bugbot)]

This bug report was filed against an old version of Ubuntu.
Can you confirm whether this is still an issue in natty?

If you don't mind, it would be very helpful if you could update the bug
report in launchpad to 'Fix Released' if it is no longer an issue for
you, or if it is still occurring under natty, please tag the bug 'natty'
so it's easier for us to track.

[bugbot (bugbot)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.