Description of problem: If I press ctrl and the left arrow key, sometimes the system goes into a state where it seems as if the ctrl key is stuck down. Applications behave as if ctrl is pressed. However, the situation is not exactly identical to holding down the ctrl key. (I'll explain below). I have only observed this problem when using gnome-terminal and emacs, and have not replicated it in another application yet. Unplugging and reconnecting the keyboard has no effect. Pressing the ctrl key or others repeatedly has no effect. I have tried with two different USB keyboards of different brands (one apple, one from dell), which work fine on other systems. I'm in the habit of pressing ctrl-left and right to skip between words in text, so this is very annoying. When it happens, the only recourse is to press ctrl-alt-backspace to restart the X server. It may have begun near the time when the system switched to using evdev to manage the keyboard. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.x86_64 xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.5.3-6.fc10.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-evdev-2.1.1-1.fc10.x86_64 metacity-2.24.0-2.fc10.x86_64 compiz-0.7.9-4.fc10.x86_64 How reproducible: Possible to reproduce in 30 seconds or less, though it does not happen every time the key combination is pressed. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open gnome-terminal 2. Press ctrl key and left arrow key. It does not matter which ctrl key is pressed. 3. Release and repeat until key gets stuck. Actual results: Ctrl key seems to get stuck. Expected results: Normal keyboard operation Additional info: I am running compiz. I haven't tried this without compiz. However, I can log in remotely and kill compiz, and then restart it, and the key seems to remain stuck. So I think its some other component causing the problem. For the most part the symptoms can be simulated by holding down one of the ctrl keys on the keyboard and trying to use the system. Menus only highlight but will not drop down. Text can be selected but nothing can be typed. Clicking on a window without the focus raises that window to the focus (the title bar changes color). Icons can be clicked but not double-clicked. However, there is one critical difference. If I open xev, holding the ctrl key and pressing another key produces some output. If I click on xev after this error has occurred xev does not get any input when keys are pressed. Somehow the ctrl-alt-backspace shortcut does still work. I don't see any abnormal messages in the Xorg log or /var/log/messages.
One amendment: It does not ALWAYS seem possible to reproduce the error quickly. I was attempting to reproduce it again to continue testing and at the moment I am not able to.
This bug seems related to key repeat. Holding down ctrl and the left arrow key until the key repeats seems to increase the chances of triggering the bug. Also, pressing ctrl right and then ctrl left increases the odds. In fact, it may be necessary to press ctrl right and ctrl left to trigger the bug. The hangup always seems to occur when the left arrow is pressed, but without ever pressing the right arrow I have not been able to cause it.
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Created attachment 332661 [details] xorg.conf file from affected system
Created attachment 332662 [details] Xorg log file from affected system This is the log file from the system before any problems occur. No additional messages appear after the problem occurs.
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Closing per comment #7.