[Bug 160014] Laptop music-control buttons freeze Amarok

[seahen]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: amarok

I'm not sure whether this would be better to fix in Amarok or in one of
the Toshiba-specific hardware packages/drivers.

I have a Toshiba Satellite 5000, which has buttons on the front to
control audio playback. Sometimes the play/pause, fast-forward or rewind
button will register repeatedly and Amarok will spend hours pausing and
unpausing, or skipping songs repeatedly. Besides sounding awful, this
takes so many CPU cycles that it becomes nearly impossible to do
anything else and clicks can take several minutes to handle. The only
thing that will stop it is to kill Amarok. I consider this a security
vulnerability since it can effectively disable the computer's other
functionality for a time, and malware could exploit this if it were
capable of generating false button presses.

Possible solutions might be to limit the size of the button buffer or
the number of presses of each button that would be acknowledged per
second.

** Affects: amarok (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Visibility changed to: Public

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Laptop music-control buttons freeze Amarok
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