Comment 118 for bug 194214

On 4/4/08, Oli <email address hidden> wrote:
> Chris: What part of nq's last comment isn't completely aligned with this
> bug description? They and I are still having near identical experiences
> to what you described... Here's how I see it:
>
> - one key or a combination of keys are indefinitely looped
> - it often kills off modifier keys (shift, alt, etc) but not necessarily all of them
> - usually triggered under load
> - anecdotally associated with mouse clicking (certainly my experience when playing games)
> - associated with Compiz (many users can only reproduce this bug under Compiz - though that may be to do with load)
> - restarting X halts the loop
> - it's a bloody annoying bug

Absolutely. However, nq said:
"When this occurs, I am unable to type
in any new applications that is launched. It automatically
crashes/closes the application regardless of the key I press. Odd thing
for me is any existing application that is already open before this
occurs will not crash or close..."
Which doesn't sound to me like "a key keeps repeating".

> And it's still all over my system. Seriously though, doesn't that MO
> look a lot like your description? It's all very well stating that this
> patch fixed it for you but that doesn't mean a variation on the same bug
> isn't manifesting in other code. Multiple people saying the same thing
> would tend to suggest this issue isn't (or, at least, shouldn't be)
> closed.

Right. Well, the xserver-xorg-core-2:1.4.1~git20080131-1ubuntu6
upload fixed this problem for me. Can you check that you're actually
using this version of the package - from the Ubuntu repositories?
(apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-core should print this info out).