Bug 1294914 - Keystroke doubling in gdm login screen
Summary: Keystroke doubling in gdm login screen
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gdm
Version: 23
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-12-30 23:55 UTC by Paul Loewenstein
Modified: 2016-12-20 17:30 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-12-20 17:30:00 UTC
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Description Paul Loewenstein 2015-12-30 23:55:51 UTC
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After Fedora 21 to 23 upgrade, the gnome login screen enter each singly-entered keystroke twice, about 1 second apart.  Hitting the same key twice quickly results in 3 keystrokes.  This provides one workaround, since backspace can be used to delete two of them.  Identifying which keys get doubled when different keys are pressed is difficult, because the password prompt hides the echoed character.

Uncommenting WaylandEnable=false in /etc/gdm/custom.conf fixed the problem.

This problem seems to be machine-specific.  I have have performed the same update on another X86-64 machine without observing this issue.

The problematic machine is an HP Proliant N36L Microserver with HP Micro Server Remote Access Card.  The problem persists if the keystrokes are entered via a USB keyboard rather than over the network through the card.  However, to test whether the problem goes away if the card's display is not used requires removing the card, which I prefer not to do unless you need this test performed (significant dismantling/reassembly is required on this machine to add or remove cards).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Ensure WaylandEnable=false is commented out in /etc/gdm/custom.conf.
2. Reboot machine.
3. Try to log in through gdm.
Actual Results:  
Covered in details.

Expected Results:  
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