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[james_mcl <124406@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel - where you say that you can press any key to release the stuck
one - over the years the bug's behaviour has varied, in some versions of
Ubuntu I've been able to stop the repeting keypress by pressing another
key, in others not. At the moment I usually seem to be able to stop it
by pressing another key several times until it's recognised - so I THINK
that the bug has at least become less severe at some point between
Intrepid and Maverick.

Like Marius says, it is true that nobody knows how many underlying bugs
are causing this and where they lie - I should have asked Bryce what to
file this as a bug in; however going by his comment #285 I assumed xorg.

Daniel, could you specify whether your external keyboard is PS/2, USB,
or something else? Somebody on Ubuntu Forums directed me to a discussion
thread where users of high-end Windows machines were experiencing it on
PS/2 keyboards - one person blaming this on their having hardware
running faster than PS/2 was designed for. Probably not an accurate
description of most people's situation, but it does suggest that knowing
the type of any external keyboard tried might be relevant.

I'll be installing Natty today, so either today or tomorrow I should be
able to say whether that fixed it for me or not.

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Title:
  Keyboard keys get stuck and repeat