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This has now happened twice on my 9.04 setup.  I'm still not sure what
triggers it, in fact I might be accidentally hitting the F1 key.  But it
certainly continued after I confirmed nothing was touching the top of
keyboard so I suspect it might be completely virtual.  Either way the
result is that the Gnome Help window pops-up endlessly until memory is
exhausted and the computer freezes.  Somehow, the first time it
happened, I was able to get new windows to stop appearing -- maybe I
pressed lots of other keys?  But this most recent time that didn't seem
to work and even though I was able to initiate a logout from the FUSA
dropdown, it was unable to 'compete' with the continuing window pop-ups.

Why isn't there some built-in 'safety' to limit how many times the
system allows a key to register?  I obviously wasn't trying to open
hundreds of Help windows!

Is there some other way to track this down?  Or, is it simpler just to
add a generic safeguard against stuck keys?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Dependencies:
 
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: gnome None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/gnome.list]
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: meta-gnome2
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine Ubuntu package

** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Incomplete


** Tags: apport-bug i386
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F1 'sticks' and opens new Help windows until memory exhausted
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/440321
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