Script started on Sun 16 Mar 2014 06:21:45 AM EDT jude at d-216-36-20-9:~$ uname -ar Linux d-216-36-20-9 3.13-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.13.5-1 (2014-03-04) x86_64 GNU/Linux jude at d-216-36-20-9:~$ exit Script done on Sun 16 Mar 2014 06:21:55 AM EDT With the kernel version and other recent updates shown above, on this hardware so far as I can tell the speakup cut and paste bug has been squashed. I tried a cut and paste operation with this kernel a little earlier and the cut and paste worked the way it had worked in earlier kernel versions without the crashed systems. jude <jdashiel at shellworld.net>