frozen login window' unable to login; must reboot' cursor moves no mouse clicks
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lightdm (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Denial o9f Service caused by holding a key that repeats for a long time. eg. cat takes nap on keyboard, cloting piled on keyboard
Before submitting bug report I checked online and saw many other reports goin back about 15 months. I saw no mention of updates or how to reproduce. In my case the cursor continues to move around, but unable to use cursor to reboot. I can only use power off as none of they keys are working.
Good thing the power button results are acceptable. and most applications fully recover.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: lightdm 1.18.3-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-109-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.15
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jan 14 19:20:22 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-02-22 (692 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Beta amd64 (20150805)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US
TERM=xterm-
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lightdm
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
| Stan Osborne (stan-ana) wrote | #1 |
| information type: | Private Security → Public Security |
| spike speigel (frail-knight) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| Stan Osborne (stan-ana) wrote | #3 |
Not sure if I have the same issue, but if I let my system go to sleep/suspend at the login screen, when I resume I cannot click in the password prompt and thus cannot type my password to login. For some reason the mouse will not give the password prompt text box focus.
It will give the password prompt text box focus if I first select another option from the user drop down list such as "Other..." or any other user, and then select my user again. Suddenly I can enter my password. Maybe this workaround might work for you as well.
Like I said, your issue may be different.