Thanks for your report. I'm personally not convinced that the sticky keys feature (that's the only one I can think of) was turned on. If a machine is has a very high load and lots of IO happens, key events are processed in a slower way.
** Changed in: meta-gnome2 (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: meta-gnome2 => None Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info -- "slow keys" can turn on surrepitiously & cause confusion. https://launchpad.net/bugs/41427 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs