I just found a new way of freezing the system. I opened the Tracker Search Tool and typed a search word. The tracker displays items 1-10 out of 27. I push downarrow on the keyboard until i reach item number 10. One additional keystroke on the downarrow key freezes the system.
The pattern seems to be that when pushing a key on the keyboard, the system freezes if the intended key action cannot be performed. Example: * When typing a text in the terminal the backspace key is pushed in order to remove the last character. If there is no last character (the marker is in the beginning of the line) the system freezes. * The tab key is used for completion if I start typing e.g. a file-name. If I didn't start to type a file name there, no completion can be performed and the system freezes. * The downarrow key takes me to the item below the current one. If I am on the last item in the list, the "take me to the next item"-action cannot be performed and the system freezes. I have not done any standard procedures like reinstalling the system in order to see if the bug remains, so it might be an exception that this is happening to my computer. One final comment in order to avoid confusion: I noticed that the dmesg file starts with mentioning kernel version 2.6.22-14, but according to my lilo-window it is version 2.4.22-14. Maybe this is all in order, it just looks confusing to me. The 2.4.22-14 is anyway the working, non- freezing, version. -- ubuntu freezes when hitting backspace or tab https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/224606 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
