I am finding that it is consistently easy to crash now just doing Ctrl-C many time but mainly I have been doing so from Chrome. I also notice that the clock keeps ticking but I can't access another tty.
The logs aren’t providing much information. The crash occurred around 19:01 and I could still see those CRON notifications appear as I was tailing journalctl even though I couldn’t access the desktop anymore with my keyboard or mouse on my VMWare virtual machine. Jul 15 19:06:24 debian dunst[2354]: WARNING: Icon 'dialog-information' not found in themes Jul 15 19:04:38 debian systemd[1326]: xfce4-notifyd.service: Two services allocated for the same bus name org.freedesktop.Notifications, refusing opera> Jul 15 19:04:38 debian systemd[1326]: Failed to put bus name to hashmap: File exists Jul 15 19:03:08 debian CRON[2786]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root Jul 15 19:03:08 debian CRON[2788]: (root) CMD (if [ -x /etc/init.d/anacron ] && ! [ -d /run/systemd/system ]; then exec /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d anacron s> Jul 15 19:03:08 debian CRON[2786]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by root(uid=0) Jul 15 19:03:08 debian CRON[2783]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root Jul 15 19:03:08 debian CRON[2785]: (root) CMD (if [ -x /etc/init.d/anacron ] && ! [ -d /run/systemd/system ]; then exec /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d anacron s> Jul 15 19:03:08 debian CRON[2783]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by root(uid=0) Jul 15 19:02:50 debian systemd[1]: anacron.service: Deactivated successfully. Jul 15 19:02:50 debian anacron[2781]: Normal exit (0 jobs run) Jul 15 19:02:50 debian anacron[2781]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2025-07-15 Jul 15 19:02:50 debian systemd[1]: Started anacron.service - Run anacron jobs. -----Original Message----- From: David Kennedy Sent: 11 July 2025 16:42 To: Thomas Goirand <tho...@goirand.fr>; 1108...@bugs.debian.org Subject: RE: Bug#1108643: Trixie Keyboard Shortcut Issues within VMWare I have spent a bit of time with Trixie today and multiple times the desktop crashed on highlighting text in Chrome or Sublime then doing Ctrl-C or also within Terminator where I have Terminator set to copy on selection and I highlight some text. Definitely related to the copy action. I thought then was it something I introduced but I remembered back to the video that it also occurred on a fresh install too. -----Original Message----- From: David Kennedy Sent: 04 July 2025 08:18 To: 'Thomas Goirand' <tho...@goirand.fr>; '1108...@bugs.debian.org' <1108...@bugs.debian.org> Subject: RE: Bug#1108643: Trixie Keyboard Shortcut Issues within VMWare Just attaching the logs for what happened at exactly the time it crashed. Hopefully ii might help you reassign it to a package or a person who knows this area. It is a VM so I can go back to the intial snapshot and try things again if required. -----Original Message----- From: David Kennedy Sent: 03 July 2025 22:42 To: Thomas Goirand <tho...@goirand.fr>; 1108...@bugs.debian.org Subject: RE: Bug#1108643: Trixie Keyboard Shortcut Issues within VMWare cc:bugs Yes, that worked perfectly. I thought it was fixed after spending some time on a new install, but I just decided to do another basic fresh install with xfce only and I managed to catch the issue on video for you. So, in the video (just a small 12MB mkv file) is my first login after the fresh install. I carried out some commands that I did last time even if they were wrong. Just at the point you see me highlight some text in Konsole I do Ctrl-C and the desktop dies. I can't do anything further at this point. I don't even think I tried to do Ctrl-V with the selection to be honest but that is worth trying too. Not sure if it relates to me doing the command "sudo usermod -aG sudo david" beforehand to add me to the sudoers file so maybe that was the trigger so worth trying that too if debugging this. I am pretty sure this can be easily recreated on KDE too as when I selected text there previously it died too. Really hope this helps. https://drive.google.com/file/d/189zM9rW-TbhiQpuhtALneTIY1F0xg7-i/view?usp=drivesdk -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Goirand <tho...@goirand.fr> Sent: 02 July 2025 14:47 To: David Kennedy <david.kenn...@jumpsec.com>; 1108...@bugs.debian.org Subject: Re: Bug#1108643: Trixie Keyboard Shortcut Issues within VMWare On 7/2/25 09:34, David Kennedy wrote: > Package: general > > Version: Unknown > > > > I am not sure about the package I’m afraid and I did email debian-user > for advice as per this “If you are unable to determine which package > your bug report should be filed against, please send e-mail to the > Debian user mailing list <mailto:debian-u...@lists.debian.org> asking > for advice.” but wasn’t informed so will leave it as ‘general’ I think. > > I've installed Trixie RC1 a few times over the past week in VMWare > Workstation Pro and noticed a recurring issue. > > I noticed that it sometimes struggles with what I assumed was copying > and pasting but had forgotten that the keyboard shortcuts for those > are actually Ctrl+Shift plus either c or v. > > Whenever I copied and tried to paste into Konsole with CTRL-V I could > no longer click into the desktop. Sometimes a notification may still > pop up during this but mouse or keyboard control was gone. > > I thought it was when doing CTRL-V from one vm to another but it also > just occurred within the single vm. This occurs no matter the Desktop > environment. > > Also just a moment ago on a basic install of xfce I went to copy from > a command from a text file within the trixie vm and then did CTRL-V to > paste it to the console and ^ V gets continuously added to the command > line tens of times and then I can't access the desktop. > > Another time even just selecting the text I wanted to copy from gedit > and copying it hung the desktop and multiple times copying text from > another vm with CTRL-V into the Trixie Konsole caused the issue. > VMware tools is installed also. > > I'm trying to streamline a bootstrap install script to install all my > pentesting tools and dotfiles hence why I've installed it many times > and reverted to bare bones installs on vmware too to play around with > my script. It's quite common that this is happening on fresh installs > and I have lots of RAM available too. Did you try SHIFT-Insert ? Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
