[PLUG] system response lost

[Denis Heidtmann]

On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Denis Heidtmann
<denis.heidtmann at gmail.com> wrote:
> My wife was replying to an email when the typing suddenly stopped
> producing any characters on the screen.  She had three windows open in
> Firefox (gmail).  I opened a terminal (using the mouse) and found that
> the response to the keyboard was the same: nothing.  Then it seemed
> that the response to the mouse was either non-existent or very slow.
> I tapped the power button which presented a window for shutting down.
> The return key worked; it shut down.  A restart seems to have restored
> normal operation.
The terminal displayed an open box at the prompt rather than a filled
box. This indicates it did not have the focus, even though I clicked
in the window.
>
> What logs might be of help in understanding what happened?  What might
> I have done at the time to provide some clues?
>
> Running Ubuntu 12.04.  Replaced the keyboard a few days ago.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Denis