Bug 292688 – The keyboard randomly ceases to work in KDE

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description fabio de francesco 2009-11-10 16:44:33 UTC]

What's happening is that sometimes in KDE session the keyboard typing is anymore recognized by the system. The mouse is the only way to move through KDE because in that condition no keyboard typing has any effect at all. I can only switch to a virtual console by ctrl-alt-F1 where instead the keyboard works.

Reproducible: Sometimes

[Comment 1 fabio de francesco 2009-11-10 16:46:31 UTC]

Portage 2.1.7.4 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.2, glibc-2.11-r0, 2.6.31-tuxonice-091003 x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-2.6.31-tuxonice-091003-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T7700_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:45:01 +0000                                                            
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]                                                                                  
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p35                                                                                  
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r1                                                                                
dev-lang/python:     2.4.6, 2.5.4-r3, 2.6.4, 3.1.1-r1                                                         
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r8                                                                                   
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4-r3                                                                                 
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1                                                                                    
sys-apps/openrc:     0.5.2-r2                                                                                 
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.2                                                                                      
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63-r1                                                                            
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2, 1.11                                   
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6a
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe -ggdb"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe -ggdb"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests ccache collision-protect distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict suidctl unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
INSTALL_MASK="TODO.bz2 ChangeLog.bz2 AUTHORS.bz2 TODO.gz ChangeLog.gz AUTHORS.gz"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="it it_IT en en_GB en_UK en_US"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi ada alsa amd64 bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus doc dri dts dvd dvdr eds emboss encode evo examples fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif git gpm gstreamer gtk hal htmlhandbook hvm iconv inotify ipv6 java java6 jpeg jpeg2k kde laptop latex libnotify lm_sensors mad mikmod mmap mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer mudflap multilib mysql mysqli ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia odbc ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png posix postgres ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session sharedmem sockets spell spl sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs syslog sysvipc tcpd threads thunar tiff truetype unicode usb vim-syntax vnc vorbis wifi x264 xattr xcb xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache doc env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info innodb log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling ssl status threads unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" APACHE2_MPMS="worker" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="it it_IT en en_GB en_UK en_US" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 2 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) 2009-11-11 15:00:02 UTC]

See the url