I recently upgraded my 'world', including both baselayout and gnome (2.6), and somewhere in there, gnome started acting oddly. I mention baselayout, because I now notice that 'input' hotplugging has been enabled. Disabling it seemed to have no effect, but it seemed like something worth mentioning. Within gnome, if I hit the shift or control keys most notably, I get a request to enable 'sticky keys', where a shift has been pressed 5 or more times in a row. Also, my machine will beep, and scroll lock will occationally turn on/off with shift or control. Also, my keypad has been disabled/acts oddly. I have changed keyboards, thinking it was the keyboard that was defective, but it persists with the new one. I do not have this problem with GTK apps in blackbox, but have been unable to narrow it down to a specific program causing it. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run gnome 2. Press a ctrl, shift, alt, or try to use the number pad. Gentoo Base System version 1.4.6 Portage 2.0.50-r3 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207-r0, 2.6.5-love2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.5-love2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor distcc 2.13 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/init.d /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache digest distcc sandbox userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/bmg" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow S3TC X X509 Xaw3d aalib accessibility acpi acpi4linux aim alsa apache2 audiofile avi bonobo caps cddb cdr chroot cjk clanJavaScript clanVoice crypt cups curl dga directfb divx dnd encode esd ethereal evo ext-png faad fam fbcon fbdev flac foomaticdb freetype fs gif gimpprint gnome gnomedb gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imlib imlib2 jabber java javascript jpeg ldap libg++ libwww mad maildir mbox md5sum mldonkeypango mmx mng mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mpeg mpeg4 mpi ncurses nls nocardbus nocd nodod nowin nptl nvidia objc offensive oggvorbis openal opengl openssh oscar oss pam pdflib pic png ppds quicktime readline samba sasl sdl slp spell src ssl stencil-buffer svga tcltk tcpd threads truetype unicode usb videos wxwindows x86 xchattext xgetdefault xine xml xml2 xosd xv xvid yahoo"
Sorry, right after posting, I found it under 'keyboard accebility'. Disabling 'enable keyboard accessibility features' seemed to disable the problem, and I am unable to recreate the problem with it enabled. It may have just been a fluke. Sorry to waste your time.
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