GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 591992
gnome-settings-daemon 2.27.90 messes up trackpad and mouse
Last modified: 2009-08-16 23:07:49 UTC
Created attachment 140902 [details] list of dependencies This is a crosspost from Launchpad (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/41229). I figure it was best to report this to the developers themselves. The only thing that's changed is the date and the version Binary package hint: gnome-settings-daemon More details: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1222933 What happens: when I click the left mouse button (used to click links) the menu that pops up when you right-click on a page pops up. Downloading is hard because Firefox won't save, just open; MegaUpload won't download at all (e.g., little prompts with just save file as an option). ALT + TAB is also very odd, only switching sometimes. Usually, if I'm in an input box in Firefox I can't switch, I have to click *out* of the box before it'll let me switch. Click on the apps on the panel below also is buggy. I think it's all gnome-settings-daemon's fault. :P My info for it (apt-cache policy gnome-settings-daemon) gnome-settings-daemon: Installed: 2.27.90-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 2.27.90-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 2.27.90-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status Pre 2.27.4 (so 2.27.3 and below), things worked fine. But now, they're all messed up. This bug is related to this one (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/404219) but is ironic in that the fix for that bug caused this one. Thank you for your time! ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Tue Aug 11 19:56:09 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 Package: gnome-settings-daemon 2.27.90-0ubuntu1 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-5.24-generic SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon Uname: Linux 2.6.31-5-generic i686 Also it looks like from the comments, others are experiencing this bug as well. There are numerous forum threads in the Karmic forum with g-s-d and Trackpad/Mouse problems. For me, it's only gotten worse as the releases have gone by. I am using Ubuntu GNU/Linux Karmic Koala (9.10) alpha 3. There are a lot weirder behaviours here and if you ask I'll describe them but in a nutshell, my left button is confused with my right, my right button doesn't even work, and the right-click menu opens at random times. I can't use ALT+TAB a whole lot normally. I will be bookmarking and checking up on this bug so you can expect me to respond.
> This is a crosspost from Launchpad > (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/41229). That doesn't seem to be the correct bug. Have Ubuntu made sure it's not their previous custom patches or the automatic migration stuff they seem to have built into the new versions that's causing the problems?
Jens, Here is the real bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/412291 I don't know what the Ubuntu staff are doing as they haven't responded. I'm really looking for insight on how to fix this. At the very least, how do I downgrade to 2.27.3?
Please don't upstream bugs before it's been determined not to be a Ubuntu-specific issue. Otherwise this is just causing duplicate work, and we don't know what they have done in their packages, anyway. Please reopen when/if there has been appropriate response from Ubuntu. How to downgrade: Install an older package? Again, can't help with Ubuntus pecifics.
Forgive my ignorance...what does "upstream" mean? Will let you know if/when the Ubuntu team responds.
"upstream" are the original developers of the code (e.g. GNOME). "downstream" are the packagers (distributions). packagers often apply custom patches and may introduce bugs or behaviours different to those seen by upstream developers. hence the need for the downstream packagers to verify that this bug is in fact a GNOME bug, not caused by special (in this case Ubuntu's) patches.