By coincidence I had a VMWare VM open today when it happened again and I can confirm what Matt said, ie:
- The keyboard worked perfectly in the VM, including the modifiers like shift, etc - Newly-opened applications were crashing, eg I opened gedit to store the output of xev, and gedit crashed; then apport detected that gedit crashed, but then apport crashed while trying to report that gedit crashed. This and the previous time this bug occurred occurred, I wasn't getting a series of 'brightness down' events reported in xev - it only registered keyboard events when I actually pressed/released a key. Since the VM isn't affected by the bug, perhaps this isn't a keyboard driver bug at all? Perhaps Gnome is not passing the events on correctly? I'd say this bug is critical because: - it's a bug in a fundamental function of the OS (ie I/O) - it can cause data loss - the computer becomes unusable (you have to log out to fix the problem) - if it's happening regularly in the beta for some people, it's likely to affect many users in the released version, which would be terrible publicity for Ubuntu; Does anybody have suggestions for what to do to try and debug this next time it happens? -- [hardy] keyboard modifiers randomly forgotten https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/190934 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
