Bug#1108643: Trixie Keyboard Shortcut Issues within VMWare
I am finding that it is consistently easy to crash now just doing Ctrl-C many time but mainly I have been doing so from Chrome. I also notice that the clock keeps ticking but I can't access another tty.
The logs aren’t providing much information. The crash occurred around 19:01 and I could still see those CRON notifications appear as I was tailing journalctl even though I couldn’t access the desktop anymore with my keyboard or mouse on my VMWare virtual machine.
Jul 15 19:06:24 debian dunst[2354]: WARNING: Icon 'dialog-information' not found in themes
Jul 15 19:04:38 debian systemd[1326]: xfce4-notifyd.service: Two services allocated for the same bus name org.freedesktop.Notifications, refusing opera>
Jul 15 19:04:38 debian systemd[1326]: Failed to put bus name to hashmap: File exists
Jul 15 19:03:08 debian CRON[2786]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
Jul 15 19:03:08 debian CRON[2788]: (root) CMD (if [ -x /etc/init.d/anacron ] && ! [ -d /run/systemd/system ]; then exec /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d anacron s>
Jul 15 19:03:08 debian CRON[2786]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by root(uid=0)
Jul 15 19:03:08 debian CRON[2783]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
Jul 15 19:03:08 debian CRON[2785]: (root) CMD (if [ -x /etc/init.d/anacron ] && ! [ -d /run/systemd/system ]; then exec /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d anacron s>
Jul 15 19:03:08 debian CRON[2783]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by root(uid=0)
Jul 15 19:02:50 debian systemd[1]: anacron.service: Deactivated successfully.
Jul 15 19:02:50 debian anacron[2781]: Normal exit (0 jobs run)
Jul 15 19:02:50 debian anacron[2781]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2025-07-15
Jul 15 19:02:50 debian systemd[1]: Started anacron.service - Run anacron jobs.
-----Original Message-----
From: David Kennedy
Sent: 11 July 2025 16:42
To: Thomas Goirand <thomas@goirand.fr>; 1108643@bugs.debian.org
Subject: RE: Bug#1108643: Trixie Keyboard Shortcut Issues within VMWare
I have spent a bit of time with Trixie today and multiple times the desktop crashed on highlighting text in Chrome or Sublime then doing Ctrl-C or also within Terminator where I have Terminator set to copy on selection and I highlight some text. Definitely related to the copy action.
I thought then was it something I introduced but I remembered back to the video that it also occurred on a fresh install too.
-----Original Message-----
From: David Kennedy
Sent: 04 July 2025 08:18
To: 'Thomas Goirand' <thomas@goirand.fr>; '1108643@bugs.debian.org' <1108643@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: RE: Bug#1108643: Trixie Keyboard Shortcut Issues within VMWare
Just attaching the logs for what happened at exactly the time it crashed. Hopefully ii might help you reassign it to a package or a person who knows this area. It is a VM so I can go back to the intial snapshot and try things again if required.
-----Original Message-----
From: David Kennedy
Sent: 03 July 2025 22:42
To: Thomas Goirand <thomas@goirand.fr>; 1108643@bugs.debian.org
Subject: RE: Bug#1108643: Trixie Keyboard Shortcut Issues within VMWare
cc:bugs
Yes, that worked perfectly. I thought it was fixed after spending some time on a new install, but I just decided to do another basic fresh install with xfce only and I managed to catch the issue on video for you.
So, in the video (just a small 12MB mkv file) is my first login after the fresh install. I carried out some commands that I did last time even if they were wrong. Just at the point you see me highlight some text in Konsole I do Ctrl-C and the desktop dies. I can't do anything further at this point. I don't even think I tried to do Ctrl-V with the selection to be honest but that is worth trying too.
Not sure if it relates to me doing the command "sudo usermod -aG sudo david" beforehand to add me to the sudoers file so maybe that was the trigger so worth trying that too if debugging this. I am pretty sure this can be easily recreated on KDE too as when I selected text there previously it died too. Really hope this helps.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/189zM9rW-TbhiQpuhtALneTIY1F0xg7-i/view?usp=drivesdk
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Goirand <thomas@goirand.fr>
Sent: 02 July 2025 14:47
To: David Kennedy <david.kennedy@jumpsec.com>; 1108643@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#1108643: Trixie Keyboard Shortcut Issues within VMWare
On 7/2/25 09:34, David Kennedy wrote:
> Package: general
>
> Version: Unknown
>
>
>
> I am not sure about the package I’m afraid and I did email debian-user
> for advice as per this “If you are unable to determine which package
> your bug report should be filed against, please send e-mail to the
> Debian user mailing list <mailto:debian-user@lists.debian.org> asking
> for advice.” but wasn’t informed so will leave it as ‘general’ I think.
>
> I've installed Trixie RC1 a few times over the past week in VMWare
> Workstation Pro and noticed a recurring issue.
>
> I noticed that it sometimes struggles with what I assumed was copying
> and pasting but had forgotten that the keyboard shortcuts for those
> are actually Ctrl+Shift plus either c or v.
>
> Whenever I copied and tried to paste into Konsole with CTRL-V I could
> no longer click into the desktop. Sometimes a notification may still
> pop up during this but mouse or keyboard control was gone.
>
> I thought it was when doing CTRL-V from one vm to another but it also
> just occurred within the single vm. This occurs no matter the Desktop
> environment.
>
> Also just a moment ago on a basic install of xfce I went to copy from
> a command from a text file within the trixie vm and then did CTRL-V to
> paste it to the console and ^ V gets continuously added to the command
> line tens of times and then I can't access the desktop.
>
> Another time even just selecting the text I wanted to copy from gedit
> and copying it hung the desktop and multiple times copying text from
> another vm with CTRL-V into the Trixie Konsole caused the issue.
> VMware tools is installed also.
>
> I'm trying to streamline a bootstrap install script to install all my
> pentesting tools and dotfiles hence why I've installed it many times
> and reverted to bare bones installs on vmware too to play around with
> my script. It's quite common that this is happening on fresh installs
> and I have lots of RAM available too.
Did you try SHIFT-Insert ?
Cheers,
Thomas Goirand (zigo)
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