I also ran into this problem. It was caused by bad permissions on /tmp,
which somehow survived a reboot. chown root:root /tmp chmod 777 /tmp
fixed it. Ideally, the system shouldn't be throwing such an obscure
error message, and the sanity check script shouldn't be silent (or
return 0) when ran a
** Attachment added: lscpi.vvnn
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24297001/lscpi.vvnn
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Ctrl-key stuck in Gnome after continued browsing
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I have the same issue on Ubuntu Intrepid.
Keys get stuck randomly, including enter, ctrl, backspace and shift
keys. It's happened in Gnome Terminal, Firefox and Pidgin.
I wasn't able to reproduce the problem in command line mode (using
ctrl+alt+F1). But I reproduced it in Gnome Terminal by
