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["Christopher M. Penalver" <christopher.m.penalver@xxxxxxxxx>]

Giuseppe Verde, could you please confirm this issue exists with the
latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ . If the issue remains,
could you please run the following command in the development release
from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal), as it will
automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this
report:

apport-collect -p linux <replace-with-bug-number>

Also, could you please test the latest upstream kernel available following https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds ? It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Please do not test the daily folder, but the one all the way at the bottom. Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please comment on which kernel version specifically you tested. If this bug is fixed in the mainline kernel, please add the following tags:
kernel-fixed-upstream
kernel-fixed-upstream-VERSION-NUMBER

where VERSION-NUMBER is the version number of the kernel you tested. For example:
kernel-fixed-upstream-v3.11-rc5

This can be done by clicking on the yellow circle with a black pencil icon next to the word Tags located at the bottom of the bug description. As well, please remove the tag:
needs-upstream-testing

If the mainline kernel does not fix this bug, please add the following tags:
kernel-bug-exists-upstream
kernel-bug-exists-upstream-VERSION-NUMBER

As well, please remove the tag:
needs-upstream-testing

If you are unable to test the mainline kernel, please comment as to why specifically you were unable to test it and add the following tags:
kernel-unable-to-test-upstream
kernel-unable-to-test-upstream-VERSION-NUMBER

Once testing of the upstream kernel is complete, please mark this bug's
Status as Confirmed. Please let us know your results. Thank you for your
understanding.

** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 195982
   Shift key (and caps lock) stop working when using VMWare

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/190934

Title:
  [hardy] keyboard modifiers randomly forgotten

Status in “libgnomekbd” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  When using GNOME, with keyboard settings set with the GNOME keyboard
  capplet, keyboard modifiers (shift, caps lock, alt, etc.) will
  randomly be forgotten.  It may be on next login, it may just happen
  while using the box.  But it will happen at some point.  Others (e.g.
  Amaranth on #gnome-hackers) have seen similar behavior, and it was
  Amaranth who showed me the workaround.

  Steps to reproduce: Unknown

  Details of my keyboard settings:  Generic 105-key PC keyboard, USA
  layout.  Layout options set are swapping ctrl and caps lock, and menu
  is compose key.

  Symptoms: randomly, modifier keys will stop working.  This may be all
  modifieres (e.g. shift, alt, ctrl, etc.) or it may be just a few of
  the settings (for example, it's happened that ctrl and caps lock got
  un-switched despite the capplet saying they were still switched).
  That one was sure odd.  Usually, though, I'll notice that GNOME forgot
  my keyboard settings

  Workaround: when the modifiers are forgotten, log out.  Log in to a
  text terminal and kill any lagging gconf processes (I've had good luck
  with kill -9 -1 ;)  Then rm -rf
  .gconf/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard.  Log out of the text
  terminal and log in to GNOME again.  You'll have to reset your
  keybinding modifiers, but the keys will all work again.

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