Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 15:47:20 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: knowtree@aloha.com Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stuck and skipping keys after update Message-ID: <415DB448.7010601@marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <200410011838.i91Icrh11620@yoda.pixi.com> References: <200410011838.i91Icrh11620@yoda.pixi.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 knowtree@aloha.com wrote: | My recent, minor updates to XFree86 and Gnome 2.8 have resulted in one | major and one minor problem: keys skip or stick, and there is a 100 sec. | delay between logging on and the first time the Actions / Logout dialog box | will open. | | I thought the keyboard problem was a result of upgrading XFree86, but it | does not occur when I logon to a session with X but without Gnome. (It also | does not happen using the plain old text console interface.) | | Keyboard will start fine, but after a minute or two keys start to stick, | repeating as if held down. Sometimes hitting another key will unstick it, | sometimes all I can do is cycle power :-( | | Work-around is to un-check "Key presses repeat when key is help down" in | the Keyboard Preferences dialog. That prevents runaway keys, but it does | not fix another artifact: pressing a key, especially the Enter key has no | effect. (Perhaps because that generates two keycode events?) (After typing | this I have to go back and add missing letters!) Eventually I get no input | from the keyboard and have to mouse-click my way to a logoff and nice re-boot. | | Yesterday I cvsup'ed my ports tree and did | | portupgrade -arR (this updated mozilla) | | portupgrade -fr gnome2 | | portupgrade -fR gnome2 | | The last one takes a long time, so I went home. Still broken today, no | change. (I'm not a portupgrade wizard, buy any means.) I have not seen this on either of my GNOME 2.8 test machines, but there was a problem similar to this under GNOME 2.6. The solution was to do a forced upgrade of libgnome, gnomevfs2, and gnomecontrolcenter2 twice. So: # portupgrade -f libgnome gnomevfs2 gnomecontrolcenter2 # portupgrade -f libgnome gnomevfs2 gnomecontrolcenter2 This fixes a condition where some files are deleted by the installation of one port, and reinstalled by the installation of another. If this doesn't fix the problem, try creating a dummy gnome account, and see if the problem reoccurs on a clean account. If not, then you may have some bad GConf settings under your normal user. Joe - -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBXbRIb2iPiv4Uz4cRAn47AKCMRS2ltFZgTYi7ho2xkzXYcmw6CQCdEFxJ w2I8hxJ8M5NKXPpTzPrTmb8= =15gw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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