Bug 203804 - I have regular freeze-ups of the keyboard, after restart keyboard working properly
Summary: I have regular freeze-ups of the keyboard, after restart keyboard working pro...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 171685
Alias: None
Product: systemsettings
Classification: Applications
Component: kcm_keyboard (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Gunnar Schmidt
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Reported: 2009-08-14 10:29 UTC by Vahram Mazlumyan
Modified: 2010-12-01 11:18 UTC (History)
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Description Vahram Mazlumyan 2009-08-14 10:29:03 UTC 
Version:           unknown (using 4.2.2 (KDE 4.2.2), Kubuntu packages)
Compiler:          cc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.28-14-generic

Hello,

I have regular freeze-ups of the keyboard, after restart keyboard working properly

The system is Ubuntu 9.04, interface KDE
Comment 1 gmud 2009-08-19 10:45:38 UTC 
Vahram, can you specifiy your problem in more detail? Does your keyboard stop working and everything else still works? I have a similar problem and I am not sure if it is a hardware problem or KDE or another software component (such as Xorg).

My problem looks like the following:
- Suddenly the keyboard stops working (even CAPS-lock/NUM-lock doesn't work, LED)
- Mousepointer still works, clicking does not work
- Nothing on the desktop is accessable anymore but visible
- Amarok for example still plays music
- The computer "reacts" to usb connect/disconnect of devices (I can see that through LED of harddisk)

Are you experiencing similar problems?
Comment 2 Marcel Schaal 2009-10-22 10:43:41 UTC 
i have similar problems like geroxp@web.de on fedora 11/12 and ubuntu 9.04. 
@geroxp@web.de: can you still switch to console with alt+ctrl+f3 e.g.?

two weeks ago it happened to a friend of mine at the computer pool of my university running opensuse 11.1 but it was a gnome session. so it might be an xorg bug
Comment 3 Vahram Mazlumyan 2009-10-22 12:20:55 UTC 
Hello,


Yes I have the same problem
Comment 4 Marcel Schaal 2009-11-12 12:02:12 UTC 
how often does it happen to you? for me it happens sometimes once an hour. sometimes i can work for five ours without problems?

do you think that the keyboard status applet is the right address? i notice the freezing always during windows (alt+tab) or desktop switches. so it might be a kwin bug
Comment 5 Radek Novacek 2009-11-12 12:15:07 UTC 
I'm having the same problem. It definitely mostly happened during window/desktop switch. I suspect kwin too and I think that switching to virtual terminal (Ctrl+Alt+F?) and killing and restarting kwin (killall kwin && kwin) made my keyboard work again. Can someone confirm that?
Comment 6 Marcel Schaal 2009-11-12 13:17:54 UTC 
switching the virtual desktop and then hit alt+tab often with interruptions reproduces the bug for me. (kwin --replace) makes keyboard responsive again.
so it should be addressed to kwin
Comment 7 Marcel Schaal 2009-11-12 13:45:12 UTC 
this time also the mouse button events were frozen. but killing kwin via ssh made everything responsive again
Comment 8 Michael Jansen 2009-12-08 00:03:47 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 171685 ***