Bug#452121: xserver-xorg: keyboard stops working

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

reassign 452121 xserver-xorg-core
found 452121 2:1.4.1~git20071119-1
thank you



Marcus Better wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg
> Version: 1:7.3+6
> Severity: important
> 
> The keyboard sometimes stops working in the middle of an X session. It
> happened twice today already on my LG i386 laptop. I think I have
> observed this on my other laptop as well (which runs amd64).
> 
> The X session simply stops responding to any keyboard events -
> pressing keys, trying to switch sessions with Alt-Ctrl-F1,
> Alt-Ctrl-Backspace etc. However the mouse still works. To unblock it I
> have to log out, at which point the keyboard starts working again in
> the KDM login dialog.

Is your KDM configured to restart X on logout?

> Merely switching to another X session (using the mouse) does not help
> - the keyboard works in the other session but is still stuck after
> switching back to the original session.
> 
> I have KDE 3.5.8 and kernel 2.6.24-rc2. Any ideas how to debug this,
> or where the bug report belongs?

The bug probably belongs to xserver-xorg-core. I am reassigning
accordingly. Does anything appear in the log when the problem
occurs? Can you unplug/replug the keyboard? Any idea how to
reproduce?

Brice