On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 07:58:09PM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > ❦ 15 août 2016 00:53 CEST, Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> : > > > [Severity and tag due to the likely possibility of exposing user > > passwords this way. If this occurs with the version in jessie as well, > > it'll require a security update.] > > I think this is fairly recent. I stumbled upon your bug report while > searching why Alt + "left arrow" switched to another VT. It started to > happen to me today. Therefore, I think this only happens with 231-2 but > not with 231-1 (assuming this is the same cause).
I could reproduce it with both 231-1 and 231-2. I suspect you started seeing it when you upgraded from 231-1 to 231-2, causing a daemon-reexec, and then Alt-Left went to the text console in addition to X, causing it to change VTs. I had a similar experience: hitting Ctrl-Alt-Del rebooted directly rather than opening a GNOME dialog, because it went to the console. - Josh Triplett