[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#558820: acpid repeatedly invoking acpi_fakekey upon opening laptop lid; makes system unusable

[harry666t]

Package: acpid
Version: 1.0.10-4
Severity: important

When the laptop lid is opened (or maybe closed? Can't figure), acpid
starts repeatedly spawning acpi_fakekey through /etc/acpi/videobtn.sh,
which renders both X and console almost unusable. Killing acpid brings
the situation back to normal.

Under X, the mouse cursor jumps around, windows take a lot of time to
redraw or react to user input, etc. Under console, "^@" character
keeps appearing, probably because of the keypress being injected via
acpi_fakekey. It makes login impossible (however, if an user is
already logged in, the system is usable enough to kill acpid).

My laptop model is Compaq Presario CQ60. I don't have any other laptop
to see if the bug isn't hardware-specific.

This started to happen after upgrading from acpid 1.0.10-3.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (999, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages acpid depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.10.1-7   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  module-init-tools             3.11-1     tools for managing Linux kernel mo

Versions of packages acpid recommends:
ii  acpi-support-base             0.123-1    scripts for handling base ACPI eve

acpid suggests no packages.

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