I have the same bug on my Toshiba laptop running the 9.04 live CD. When I adjust the volume knob on the side of the laptop, gnome-settings goes into some funky state where it continually triggers notify-osd. Even with only a minor volume adjustment, the volume will run away to full maximum or full mininum and continue to stay there. It effectively locks up the keyboard and the gnome panel, but the mouse still works for some things.
I originally thought the problem was notify-osd which was running at 100% of CPU, but some investigation with the help of the notify-osd guys shows the problem is likely gnome-settings. If I kill gnome-settings then everything works fine, but without the Ubuntu appearance. If I do something to trigger a restart of gnome-settings (like change the wallpaper), then the Ubuntu appearance comes back and everything works just fine until I touch the volume knob again. Then the entire process repeats. In my case this is very reproducible and is triggered only by the volume knob, but not the on-screen volume slider which can be safely adjusted with the mouse. My previous work on this issue can be found at bug 367069 which is probably a duplicate of this one. -- gnome-settings-daemon grabs my keyboard and won't let go https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/335201 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
