Comment 12 for bug 186264

Yesterday the keyboard stopped working on my Fedora 8, but this time, there was a window giving me a hint. It was a window from Gnome telling me slow keys had been activated. (yes, although I use KDE, sometimes Gnome settings seems to get loaded and messes up with KDE.) Slow keys get activated after holding down Shift for 8 seconds, then you have to hold each key for 500ms (default) to it take effect. For some reason on my Kubuntu setting I didn't have any notification enabled (neither a message nor a speaker beep), so then it appeared like keyboard not responding. Well, I'm really only guessing, because after doing a lot of tests with Gnome and KDE accessibility settings in both installations, I think I'm getting a bit confused :-)

Matt, could you check if in your accessibility settings "Activation gestures" (translation) are enabled and notifications disabled? Also, if your keyboard fails again, could you try whether disabling accessibility resolves the problem or not?