[Bug 41301] Re: Mouse clicks stop working sporadically

[Cpp]

Okay, it would seem that this but has decided to hit me too.

I have never before experienced it, but ever since the last ubuntu
update before 14. March, 2010 (I think it was a also new kernel image) I
am suddenly getting these weird mouse problems that others have
described. I can move the mouse cursor, but any mouse clicks (left or
right) are mostly ignored. If I unplug and replug my usb mouse, nothing
happens and the problem persists. Since I use a laptop, I am getting the
same on the touchpad, so its definitely not a hardware problem. It's
almost as if there was some invisible window blocking all the mouse
clicks from reaching the proper windows underneath. I found out that
right-clicking usually helps when menus pop up. That's when the problem
normally goes away for a while. I have no idea how to reproduce it
though it seems to happen randomly.

At one point I managed to run the update manager, which warned me that
something is stealing focus and that somebody may be doing something
malicious. Another weird example is when the firefox window was fully
responsive, but everything else was dead. In third case I managed to get
the bottom bar in gnome to work, but everything else was frozen.

I mostly run a gnome terminal and firefox when the bug hits. Keyboard is
responsive though alt+tab doesn't work. I can do an Alt+F2 to run an
xterm to gain some control and killall some unresponsive apps. On most
windows I couldn't click the little X to close the window, but I could
still use the other two controls to minimize and maximize it. Sometimes
even those don't work and you can't click and drag the window around.

~$uname -a
Linux lprime 2.6.31-20-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Mon Feb 8 09:05:19 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

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Mouse clicks stop working sporadically
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