Description of problem: Under KDE, keyboard state become corrupted. The observed behavior is most often similar to a stuck control key, but may sometimes exhibit the behavior of a stuck alt, "windows start," caps lock, scroll lock, or shift key. All keyboard and mouse inputs are corrupted and the results are often unexpected, irritating, or destructive. The corrupted state may usually be cleared by opening a new terminal and repeatedly entering ctl+enter, windows_key+enter, alt+enter, and/or sh+enter keystrokes. The ctl+enter combination will usually clear the error but other combinations are sometimes necessary. Keyboard status LEDs have been observed to toggle state unexpectedly and uncommanded as well. In extreme cases, it may be necessary to logoff/logon or reset the computer to resume normal operation. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): FC6 kernel 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 and KDE of similar "vintage." The bug has been a problem since the day FC6 was released. How reproducible: It may be necessary to install FC5 first, as I've experienced the problem for months after performing a "yum upgrade" from FC5. No other users seem to be experiencing this problem. I have no method to reliably reproduce the bug. A variety of tasks in both terminals and X-windowed aps will trigger the bug--every 10 minutes or so, on the average, under "power user" workloads. I've updated my entire system several times since I originally upgraded from FC5 and the bug has been persistent. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Deterministic steps are unknown. See above. 2. 3. Actual results: See above. Expected results: Normal and predictable keyboard and kb qualifier key (ctl, alt, sh, etc.) behavior. Additional info: I have "cloned" this system to several platforms (AMD and Intel based mobos and both PS-2 and USB kb + mouse). The problem exists on ALL the systems while KDE is running. Gnome and non-X environments both DO NOT exhibit the problem, in my experience. I have switched to Gnome to workaround the bug.
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