Bug#605224: base: Unable to login into text terminal after gnome messes up with keyboard input

[Holger Levsen]

reassign 605224 gnome
# strange bug indeed
# the refered image is also available in the BTS
thanks

On Sonntag, 28. November 2010, michalxo wrote:
> Package: base
> Severity: normal
> Tags: upstream
>
> Hello all!
>  I am having a strange error like in Ubuntu I had. After gnome messes up
> (randomly) standard keyboard behaviour this bug occurs.
>  In gnome, it seems that ALT button is pressed (in my case Mod4) to move
> windows, use shortcuts etc. To get normal behaviour of no "function key"
> pressed, I have to go to (any of) tty1-7 and back to graphical tty. Then it
> works everything in gnome, except unability to login into text tty causing
> ^[x instead of x characters to show up.
>  https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7827410/IMG_3183.jpg
>
> I am not sure about which package it is.
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> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash


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