Bug#404367: xserver-xorg: keypresses are occasionally multiplied dozens, hundreds or thousands of times

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 11:08:42 -0500
David Nusinow <dnusinow@speakeasy.net> wrote:

> merge 404367 404368
> thanks
> 
> On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 11:18:04PM -0500, celejar wrote:
> > Package: xserver-xorg
> > Version: 1:7.1.0-9
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > 
> > Every now and then, without any pattern or triggering event that I can
> > determine, CPU usage spikes to 100% and a keypress is multiplied dozens,
> > hundreds or even thousands of times. This happens across all different
> > contexts within X, such as typing text in an application or an xterm,
> > using an application's hotkeys, and even using the WM's (Xfce) control
> > keys. I have never seen the problem at the console (not even when X is
> > running and I shift back to the console with alt-ctrl-F1), and I have
> > never seen it under kernels in the 2.4.x series (currently
> > kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386 2.4.27-11), only under 2.6.x series kernels.
> 
> Could you please try downgrading xserver-xorg-core to the version in
> testing, 2:1.1.1-11 and tell us if this makes the problem go away? Thank
> you!
> 
>  - David Nusinow

Thanks for the reply. I've done it, but the problem remains.

Celejar