Comment 20 for bug 195982

I too have been experiencing this issue. I launch VMware Workstation 6.0.3 build 80004 and when I click inside a Windows XP console (don't have any other VMs yet) and come back out, my shift keys, caps lock, control and alt keys no longer function. Like in the other cases, my mouse continues to function properly, so I can click through and log out. Logging out seems to reset whatever needs to be reset because I can log back in and the keyboard works as expected.

Here is the other spin to this -- if I open a GNOME Terminal in this state and press *ANY* key at all, the terminal window immediately disappears. I also had Firefox go to lunch on me when I was typing into the location bar. I can trigger that again and send a crash report if necessary.

Here is some more info on my setup:

XOrg:
X.Org X Server 1.4.0.90
Release Date: 5 September 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux Ubuntu (xorg-server 2:1.4.1~git20080131-1ubuntu6)
Current Operating System: Linux feathers 2.6.24-15-generic #1 SMP Fri Apr 4 03:10:59 UTC 2008 x86_64
Build Date: 30 March 2008 04:44:41PM

Video Driver:
Restricted nVidia driver
ii nvidia-glx-new 169.12+2.6.24.12-15.33 NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x/X.Org 'new' driver
ii nvidia-kernel-common 20051028+1ubuntu8 NVIDIA binary kernel module common files

VMware:
VMware Workstation 6.0.3 build 80004

VMware tools:
YES

I am attaching the requested output mentioned earlier. I have no segfaults or anything at this time to report. I do not believe anything is crashing per say, but I am definitely having the keyboard issues reported and it (at least for me) seems to be related to the VMware console functionality.