This sounds like a hardware issue even though it worked on Windows. I found this forum thread which may be relevant: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2203274 So maybe try to clean and reseat the keyboard if this is possible. Sławek Kapłoński <slawek@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hello, > > I have Arch linux installed on Dell latitude e7440 laptop. Generally almost > everything works fine but I have one annoying problem. When I type something on > keyboard, sometimes (randomly) random key is "blocked" like it was pressed all > time (for example when I wroteeeeeeeeeeee something). This stops when I press > any other (or even the same) key once again. I test it on Windows 7 (not for > long time but in similar time on linux this problem appear) and there was no > problem on Win. > I have no idea what could be a reason of that problem and how to debug or > diagnose it. Maybe someone of You had same problem on will have some idea how > to start searching reason of that :) I will be graceful for any help :) > > -- > Pozdrawiam, > Sławek Kapłoński > slawek@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > -- > Klucz GPG można pobrać ze strony: > http://kaplonski.pl/files/slawek_kaplonski.pub.key > -- > My public GPG key can be downloaded from: > http://kaplonski.pl/files/slawek_kaplonski.pub.key