Weird keyboard lockup

Tarjei Knapstad tarjei.knapstad at gmail.com
Wed Jul 19 12:12:21 UTC 2006


On 7/19/06, Tarjei Knapstad <tarjei.knapstad at gmail.com> wrote:
> A colleague is experiencing some weird keyboard lockups under FC4
> (fully updated). After some random interval of about 1-2 hours it
> looks like X just stops receiving keyboard events, not even responding
> to Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. The mouse works just fine, and I can start a
> terminal and enter commands by pasting bits and pieces using the
> mouse. The box has an ATI graphics card (Radeon 9600), but uses the
> stock X 'radeon' driver.
>
> The end of /var/log/Xorg.log.0 looks like (repeated several times):
>
>    SetClientVersion: 0 8
>    SetGrabKeysState - disabled
>    SetGrabKeysState - enabled
>
> Any ideas to what could be wrong/how to fix this?
>

Upon closer inspection the box wasn't entirely up to date (running an
old kernel++). Will try a complete update and see if that magically
solves the problem :)

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T




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