Bug 47540 – Gnome recieving keyboard input oddly, sticky keys keeps popping up

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Adam 2004-04-11 12:34:14 UTC]

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"

[Comment 1 Adam 2004-04-11 12:38:31 UTC]

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.

[Comment 2 foser (RETIRED) 2004-04-25 09:48:03 UTC]

closing