Comment 50 for bug 195982

Same symptoms here, latest hardy, 2.6.24-16, vmware 1.05 build 80187, with the any-any-116 patch to get it to compile. HP nx6230 laptop, with integrated 945GM graphics (i810 driver, with Option AccelMethod XAA). Built the laptop/OS yesterday and started seeing the symptoms today when I built the first vm host (windows xp) and started putting MS updates on it.

Have had it happen several times today, definiately seems to be something to do with vmware-tools, but not able to reproduce it on demand no matter how much I try.

Apps that are open at the time largely continue to work, but new apps die as soon as any key is pressed.

Strangely, alt-f2 (run dialog) does work, so it at least sees 'alt' being pressed, but as soon as I press a further key, it (and the panels at the bottom of the screen) die and restart.

Mouse works fine, so I've created a shortcut on the desktop that runs setxkbmap, but haven't tested it yet.