Stuck and skipping keys after update
knowtree at aloha.com
knowtree at aloha.com
Fri Oct 1 12:16:22 PDT 2004
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.)
Here is the data on my system (real host name obscured):
# uname -a
FreeBSD my.host.name 4.10-STABLE FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #6: Mon Sep 20
14:39:38 HST 2004 root at my.host.name:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
# pkg_info
AbiWord2-gnome-2.0.11 An open-source, cross-platform WYSIWYG word processor
Hermes-1.3.3_1 Fast pixel formats conversion library
ImageMagick-6.0.6.2 Image processing tools
ORBit-0.5.17_2 High-performance CORBA ORB with support for the C language
ORBit2-2.10.4 High-performance CORBA ORB with support for the C language
XFree86-4.4.0_1,1 X11/XFree86 core distribution (complete, using mini/meta-po
XFree86-FontServer-4.4.0 XFree86-4 font server
XFree86-NestServer-4.4.0 XFree86-4 nested X server
XFree86-PrintServer-4.4.0 XFree86-4 print server
XFree86-Server-4.4.0_4 XFree86-4 X server and related programs
XFree86-VirtualFramebufferServer-4.4.0 XFree86-4 virtual framebuffer server
XFree86-clients-4.4.0_1 XFree86-4 client programs and related files
XFree86-documents-4.4.0 XFree86-4 documentation
XFree86-font100dpi-4.4.0 XFree86-4 bitmap 100 dpi fonts
XFree86-font75dpi-4.4.0 XFree86-4 bitmap 75 dpi fonts
XFree86-fontCyrillic-4.4.0 XFree86-4 Cyrillic fonts
XFree86-fontDefaultBitmaps-4.4.0 XFree86-4 default bitmap fonts
XFree86-fontEncodings-4.4.0 XFree86-4 font encoding files
XFree86-fontScalable-4.4.0_1 XFree86-4 scalable fonts
XFree86-libraries-4.4.0_1 XFree86-4 libraries and headers
XFree86-manuals-4.4.0 XFree86-4 man pages
Xaw3d-1.5 A 3-D Athena Widget set that looks like Motif
aalib-1.4.r5_1 An ascii art library
acroread-5.09 View, distribute and print PDF documents
aspell-0.60_2 Spelling checker with better suggestion logic than ispell
at-spi-1.4.2 An Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface
atk-1.6.1 A GNOME accessibility toolkit (ATK)
autoconf-2.53_3 Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms
autoconf-2.59_2 Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms
automake-1.5_2,1 GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator (version 1.5)
automake-1.8.5_2 GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator (version 1.8)
bison-1.75_2 A parser generator from FSF, (mostly) compatible with Yacc
bitstream-vera-1.10 Bitstream Vera TrueType font collection
bluefish-0.13_1 HTML editor designed for the experienced web designer
bonobo-1.0.22_1 The component and compound document system for GNOME
bpm-0.4.1b_1 A graphical BSD ports collection manager
bugbuddy2-2.6.1 A bug reporting tool for GNOME 2
cdrtools-2.0.3_4 CD/CD-R[W] and ISO-9660 image creation and extraction tools
cups-base-1.1.20.0 The Common UNIX Printing System: headers, libs, & daemons
cups-pstoraster-7.07_1 GNU Postscript interpreter for CUPS printing to
non-PS prin
cvsup-16.1h General network file distribution system optimized for CVS
dasher-3.2.11_1 Information efficient text-entry interface
diablo-jdk-1.3.1.0 Java Development Kit 1.3.1
docbook-sk-4.1.2_3 XML version of the DocBook DTD version controlled for Scrol
docbook-xml-4.2_1 XML version of the DocBook DTD
docbook-xsl-1.65.1 XSL DocBook stylesheets
dri-5.0.2,2 OpenGL hardware acceleration drivers for the DRI
dvipsk-tetex-5.92b_1 Convert a TeX DVI file to PostScript
eel2-2.6.2 Generally useful classes and extensions to GNOME
eog2-2.6.1_4 The Eye Of Gnome image viewer
epiphany-1.2.8 An extremely lightweight and simple web browser for GNOME 2
esound-0.2.35_1 A sound library for enlightenment package
expat-1.95.8 XML 1.0 parser written in C
ezm3-1.2 Easier, more portable Modula-3 distribution for building CV
faces-1.7.7_5 Visual mail, user and print face server
fam-2.6.9_6 A file alteration monitor
fileroller-2.6.2,1 An archive manager for zip files, tar, etc
fontconfig-2.2.3,1 An XML-based font configuration API for X Windows
freetype-1.3.1_3 A free and portable TrueType font rendering engine
freetype2-2.1.7_3 A free and portable TrueType font rendering engine
fribidi-0.10.4_1 A Free Implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorith
gail-1.6.6 An implementation of the ATK interfaces for GTK+ widgets
gal-0.24_1 A collection of widgets taken from GNOME gnumeric and evolu
gcalctool-4.3.51,1 A GNOME 2 calculator tool based on the old calctool for Ope
gconf-1.0.9_7 A configuration database system for GNOME
gconf-editor-2.6.2,1 A gconf database editor for the GNOME 2 environment
gconf2-2.6.4 A configuration database system for GNOME
gdbm-1.8.3_1 The GNU database manager
gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0_1 A graphic library for GTK+
gdm2-2.6.0.4 GNOME 2 version of xdm display manager
gedit2-2.6.2_2 A small but powerful text editor for Gnome 2 Desktop Enviro
gettext-0.13.1_1 GNU gettext package
gftp-2.0.17 A free multithreaded GTK-based GUI ftp and sftp client
ggv2-2.6.2 GNOME 2 ghostscript viewer
ghostscript-gnu-7.07_11 GNU Postscript interpreter
gimp-gnome-2.0.4,1 A GNU Image Manipulation Program
gimp-print-4.2.7 GIMP Print Printer Driver
gle-3.0.3 A GL Tubing and Extrusion Library
glib-1.2.10_11 Some useful routines of C programming (previous stable vers
glib-2.4.6_1 Some useful routines of C programming (current stable versi
gmake-3.80_2 GNU version of 'make' utility
gnomba-0.6.2_1 GNOME compliant browser of SMB shares
gnome-icon-theme-1.2.3 A collection of icons for the GNOME 2 desktop
gnome-themes-2.6.3 A collection of themes and icons for GNOME 2 designed for a
gnome2-2.6.2 The "meta-port" for the GNOME 2 integrated X11 desktop
gnomeapplets2-2.6.2.1_4 Applets components for the Gnome 2 Desktop Environment
gnomeaudio2-2.0.0 Sound files for use with GNOME 2
gnomebasic-0.0.20_1 Provide Visual Basic compatible functionality for GNOME, es
gnomecanvas-0.22.0_1 A graphics library for GNOME
gnomecontrolcenter2-2.6.1_3 Control center for GNOME 2 project
gnomedb-0.2.96_2 Provide uniform access to data sources for the GNOME enviro
gnomedesktop-2.6.2 Additional UI API for GNOME 2
gnomegames2-2.6.2_2 The game applications package for the Gnome 2 Desktop Envir
gnomehier-1.0_19 A utility port that creates the GNOME directory tree
gnomekeyring-0.2.1_1 A program that keeps passwords and other secrets
gnomelibs-1.4.2_2 Libraries for GNOME, a GNU desktop environment
gnomemag-0.10.11 GNOME screen magnifier
gnomemedia2-2.6.2_6 Multimedia applications for the GNOME 2 desktop
gnomemimedata-2.4.1_2 A MIME and Application database for GNOME
gnomenetstatus-2.6.2.1 A GNOME applet that shows network status
gnomepanel-2.6.2_1 Panel component for the GNOME 2 Desktop
gnomeprint-0.37_1 Gnome print support library
gnomesession-2.6.2 Session component for the GNOME 2 desktop
gnomespeech-0.3.5 GNOME text-to-speech API
gnomesystemmonitor-2.6.0_2 GNOME 2 system monitor program
gnometerminal-2.6.1_2 Terminal component for the GNOME 2 Desktop
gnomeuserdocs2-2.6.0.1 GNOME 2 users guide
gnomeutils2-2.6.2_1,1 GNOME 2 support utilities
gnomevfs-1.0.5_6 GNOME Virtual File System
gnomevfs2-2.6.2_1 GNOME Virtual File System
gnopernicus-0.8.4 Collection of accessibility apps for GNOME 2
gnumeric-1.0.13_1 The GNOME spreadsheet
gok-0.10.2 GNOME On-Screen Keyboard (GOK)
gpdf-0.132 GNOME version of xpdf
gpkgdep-0.0_2 Shows package dependencies in tree views
gsfonts-8.11_2 Fonts used by GNU Ghostscript (or X)
gsm-1.0.10 Audio converter and library for converting u-law to gsm enc
gstreamer-0.8.5 Development framework for creating media applications
gstreamer-plugins-0.8.4 GStreamer written collection of plugins handling
several me
gtk-1.2.10_12 Gimp Toolkit for X11 GUI (previous stable version)
gtk-2.4.9_1 Gimp Toolkit for X11 GUI (current stable version)
gtk-engines2-2.2.0_4 Theme engine for the gtk+-2.0 toolkit
gtksourceview-1.0.1 A text widget that adds syntax highlighting to the GtkTextV
gucharmap-gnome-1.4.1 A Unicode/ISO10646 character map and font viewer
guile-1.6.4_6 GNU Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extension
guppi-0.40.3_4 A ploting program for GNOME
gv-3.5.8_3 A PostScript and PDF previewer
hdf-4.1r5 Hierarchical Data Format library (from NCSA)
help2man-1.33.1 Automatically generating simple manual pages from program o
hicolor-icon-theme-0.5 A high-color icon theme shell from the FreeDesktop
project
imake-4.4.0 Imake and other utilities from XFree86
imlib-1.9.14_4 A graphic library for enlightenment package
intltool-0.31.2 Xml internationalization support for GNOME, and others
ispell-3.2.06_11 An interactive spelling checker for multiple languages
jasper-1.701.0 An implementation of the codec specified in the JPEG-2000 s
javavmwrapper-1.5 Wrapper script for various Java Virtual Machines
jbigkit-1.6 Lossless compression for bi-level images such as scanned pa
jdk-1.3.1p9_4 Java Development Kit 1.3
jpeg-6b_3 IJG's jpeg compression utilities
lcms-1.13,1 Light Color Management System -- a color management library
libIDL-0.8.4 A library for creating trees of CORBA Interface Definition
libXft-2.1.6 A client-sided font API for X applications
libart_lgpl2-2.3.16 Library for high-performance 2D graphics
libaudiofile-0.2.6 A sound library for SGI audio file
libbonobo-2.6.2 A component and compound document system for GNOME2
libbonoboui-2.6.1 GUI frontend to the libbonobo component of GNOME 2
libcroco-0.5.1 CSS2 parsing library
libexif-0.5.12_2 Library to read digital camera file meta-data
libflash-0.4.10 GPL Flash (TM) Library
libfpx-1.2.0.9 Library routines for working with Flashpix images
libgail-gnome-1.0.6 An implementation of the ATK interfaces for GNOME widgets
libgda-0.2.96_2 Provides uniform access to different kinds of data sources
libglade-0.17_3 GNOME glade library
libglade2-2.4.0 GNOME glade library
libglut-6.0.1 A graphics library similar to SGI's OpenGL
libgnome-2.6.1.2 Libraries for GNOME, a GNU desktop environment
libgnomecanvas-2.6.1.1 A graphics library for GNOME
libgnomeprint-2.6.2 Gnome print support library
libgnomeprintui-2.6.2 Gnome print support library
libgnomeui-2.6.1.1 Libraries for the GNOME GUI, a GNU desktop environment
libgnugetopt-1.2 GNU getopt library
libgsf-1.10.1 An extensible i/o abstraction for dealing with structured f
libgtkhtml-2.6.2 Lightweight HTML rendering/printing/editing engine
libgtop2-2.6.0_1 GNOME 2 top library
libiconv-1.9.2_1 A character set conversion library
libid3tag-0.15.0b_1 ID3 tags library (part of MAD project)
libijs-0.35 C library that supports plugin printer driver for Ghostscri
libltdl-1.5.8 System independent dlopen wrapper
libmad-0.15.1b Libmad library (part of MAD project)
libmikmod-esound-3.1.11 MikMod Sound Library
libmng-1.0.8 Multiple-image Network Graphics (MNG) reference library
libmpeg2-0.4.0b_1 A free library for decoding mpeg-2 and mpeg-1 video streams
libogg-1.1,3 Ogg bitstream library
libole2-0.2.4_1 Support library for OLE functions (MS-Excel) for gnumeric
librep-0.16.2_4 An Emacs Lisp like runtime library
librsvg2-2.6.5_1 Library for parsing and rendering SVG vector-graphic files
libtool-1.3.5_2 Generic shared library support script (version 1.3)
libtool-1.5.8 Generic shared library support script (version 1.5)
libungif-4.1.3 Tools and library routines for working with GIF images
libunicode-0.4_4 A library for manipulating Unicode characters and strings
libvorbis-1.0.1,3 Audio compression codec library
libwmf-0.2.8.3 Tools and library for converting Microsoft WMF (windows met
libwnck-2.6.2.1_1 Library used for writing pagers and taskslists
libwww-5.4.0_1 The W3C Reference Library
libxklavier-1.03_1,1 An utility library to make XKB stuff easier
libxml-1.8.17_2 Xml parser library for GNOME
libxml2-2.6.13 XML parser library for GNOME
libxslt-1.1.10 The XSLT C library for GNOME
linc-1.0.3_2 A library for writing networked servers & clients
linux-esound-0.2.22_2 RPM of esound
linux-flashplugin-5.0r51_1 The official Macromedia Flash Player for Linux
Netscape and
linux-flashplugin-6.0r79_1 The official Macromedia Flash Player for Linux
Mozilla and
linux-libaudiofile-0.1.11_3 RPM of audiofile
linux-realplayer-8.cs2_5 Linux RealPlayer 8.0 from RealNetworks
linux_base-7.1_7 The base set of packages needed in Linux mode
linuxpluginwrapper-20040831 A wrapper allowing use of linux-plugins with
native applica
lynx-2.8.5 A non-graphical, text-based World-Wide Web client
lyx-1.3.4_1 Document processor interfaced with LaTeX (nearly WYSIWYG)
m4-1.4.1 GNU m4
metacity-2.8.2_1 A window manager for the adult in you
mozilla-1.7.2_2,2 The open source, standards compliant web browser
mpeg2codec-1.2_1 An MPEG-2 Encoder and Decoder
nautilus-cd-burner-2.6.1_1 CD burner view for Nautilus
nautilus-media-0.8.0_4 GStreamer-based multimedia views for Nautilus
nautilus2-2.6.3_1 GNOME file manager and graphical shell developed by Eazel
nspr-4.4.1_1 A platform-neutral API for system level and libc like funct
oaf-0.6.10_2 Object Activation Framework for GNOME
open-motif-2.2.3 Motif X11 Toolkit (industry standard GUI (IEEE 1295))
p5-XML-Parser-2.34_1 Perl extension interface to James Clark's XML parser,
expatp5-gettext-1.01_4 Message handling functions
pango-1.4.1 An open-source framework for the layout and rendering of i1
pcre-4.5 Perl Compatible Regular Expressions library
pib-1.2 GUI Ports Collection management tool
pkgconfig-0.15.0_1 A utility used to retrieve information about installed libr
png-1.2.6 Library for manipulating PNG images
png2ico-2002.12.08_1 Converts PNG files to Windows icon resource files
popt-1.7 A getopt(3) like library with a number of enhancements, fro
portupgrade-20040701_3 FreeBSD ports/packages administration and management
tool s
psiconv-0.8.3_1 A conversion utility to convert Psion 5(MX) files into othe
python-2.3.4_2 An interpreted object-oriented programming language
rc_subr-1.31 Common startup and shutdown subroutines used by scripts
rep-gtk2-gnome-0.18_1,1 GTK+-2 binding for rep Lisp interpreter
rplay-3.3.2_1 Network audio player
rpm-3.0.6_9 The Red Hat Package Manager
rpm2cpio-1.2_2 Convert .rpm files for extraction with /usr/bin/cpio, needs
rsync-2.6.2_3 A network file distribution/synchronization utility
ruby-1.6.8.2004.07.28 An object-oriented interpreted scripting language
ruby-1.8.2.p2_1 An object-oriented interpreted scripting language
ruby16-shim-ruby18-1.8.1.p3 A set of Ruby modules to provide Ruby 1.8
functionalities
ruby18-bdb1-0.2.2 Ruby interface to Berkeley DB revision 1.8x with full featu
samba-2.2.11_1 A free SMB and CIFS client and server for UNIX
sawfish2-1.3_7,2 Lisp configurable window manager
scrollkeeper-0.3.14_1,1 An Open Document Cataloging Project
sdocbook-xml-4.1.2.5_2 "Simplified" DocBook XML DTD
shared-mime-info-0.15 A MIME type database from the FreeDesktop project
sox-12.17.4_2 SOund eXchange - universal sound sample translator
startup-notification-0.7 Library that supports startup notification spec
from freede
sudo-1.6.8.1 Allow others to run commands as root
t1lib-5.0.1,1 A Type 1 Rasterizer Library for UNIX/X11
tcl-8.2.3_4 Tool Command Language
tcl-8.4.6_1,1 Tool Command Language
teTeX-2.0.2_5 A meta port for teTeX suite
teTeX-base-2.0.2_2 Thomas Esser's distribution of TeX & friends (binaries)
teTeX-texmf-2.0.2 Thomas Esser's distribution of TeX & friends (texmf tree)
tex-texmflocal-1.4 Meta-port that creates a site-local $TEXMF directory
tiff-3.6.1_2 Tools and library routines for working with TIFF images
tk-8.2.3_3 Graphical toolkit for TCL
tk-8.4.6,1 Graphical toolkit for TCL
unzip-5.51 List, test and extract compressed files in a ZIP archive
urwfonts-1.0 Another font package for X
vte-0.11.11 Terminal widget with improved accessibility and I18N suppor
weblint-1.020 HTML validator and sanity checker
wrapper-1.0_3 Wrapper for XFree86-4 server
wv-1.0.0_2 A library and executables to access Microsoft Word files
xdvik-tetex-22.78_2 DVI Previewer(kpathsearch) for X
xemacs-21.4.15 This port tracks the stable version of the XEmacs text edit
xemacs-packages-10.0 Basic XEmacs elisp packages(xemacs-packages)
xforms-1.0_3,1 A graphical user interface toolkit for X Window System
xmlcatmgr-2.1 SGML and XML catalog manager
xmms-esound-1.2.10 X Multimedia System --- An audio player with a Winamp GUI
xscreensaver-gnome-4.18 Save your screen while you entertain your cat (for
GNOME us
xterm-196_3 Terminal emulator for the X Window System
yelp-2.6.2 A help browser for the GNOME 2 desktop
zenity-2.6.3 Display GNOME dialogs from the command line
zip-2.3_1 Create/update ZIP files compatible with pkzip
shf102158#
# /usr/bin/env
USER=dunng
MAIL=/var/mail/dunng
HOME=/root
DESKTOP_SESSION=gnome
PAGER=more
ENV=/home/dunng/.shrc
LOGNAME=dunng
BLOCKSIZE=K
USERNAME=dunng
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin
DISPLAY=:0.0
XAUTHORITY=/home/dunng/.Xauthority
SHELL=/bin/csh
GDMSESSION=gnome
FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES
EDITOR=vi
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-TrMtEc8v/agent.285
SSH_AGENT_PID=298
GTK_RC_FILES=/usr/X11R6/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/dunng/.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2
SESSION_MANAGER=local/my.host.name:/tmp/.ICE-unix/285
GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=/var/tmp/keyring-8CFsDC/socket
GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=Default
DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID=
TERM=xterm
COLORTERM=gnome-terminal
WINDOWID=33554488
HOSTTYPE=FreeBSD
VENDOR=intel
OSTYPE=FreeBSD
MACHTYPE=i386
SHLVL=2
PWD=/home/dunng
GROUP=dunng
HOST=my.host.name
GDK_USE_XFT=1
Thanks in advance!
Gary Dunn
Honolulu
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