FWIW, this just happened to me too, on 16.04.2. It does this once every few weeks, trigger unknown. Fixed by toggling repeat setting off/on. Guess I would rate this as a minor annoyance only.
I also have Nvidia so this could be the common factor: ECS$ lspci | grep -i nvidia 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107GLM [Quadro M1000M] (rev a2) 01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation Device 0fbc (rev a1) ECS$ dpkg -l | grep nvidia ii nvidia-367 367.57-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA binary driver - version 367.57 ii nvidia-opencl-icd-367 367.57-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA OpenCL ICD ii nvidia-prime 0.8.2 amd64 Tools to enable NVIDIA's Prime ii nvidia-settings 361.42-0ubuntu1 amd64 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/272293 Title: [hardy] Key repeat gets randomly turned off. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/272293/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
