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Clipboard does not work

Bug #67394 reported by markba
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Bug Description

After working with Edgy RC1 for a certain period of time, using clipboard functions (Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V), it just stopped working:
(1) selecting text in gedit was not possible anymore; at first, I thought it was purely visual, but hitting Ctrl-C did not have any effect (seeable with Ctrl-V)
(2) selecting text from an about window did give me visual feedback that text was selected, but when pasting that text with Ctrl-V (after copying with Ctrl-C) revealed that the text was NOT copied.

Note: when hitting Ctrl-V, it pasted a PREVIOUS text, so it appears that the copy-mechanism is broken. A reboot, just like in Windows :-( solves the problem.

Detected on Edgy RC1.

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markba (mark-baaijens)
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markba (mark-baaijens)
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Jeff Greene (jeffgreene) wrote :

I am not able to reproduce this bug. Is this bug still happening?

Changed in gnome-desktop:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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markba (mark-baaijens) wrote :

That's exactly the point, I cannot reproduce this either. As I.ve indicated, I was working intensively with Edgy, filing bugs ;-(, and as an effect, I cannot recall exactly what seems to be the crucial step in which the clipboard functionality began to fail.

To answer your question: after I filed the bug, it didn't happen anymore. I try to keep this problem in mind, but for now, it's almost impossible to do anything about it because it's not reproducable at this moment.

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Jeff Greene (jeffgreene) wrote :

I'm sorry to have to do this, but since you cannot reproduce the bug and you do not have any logs of the crash since it did not crash, I am going to reject this bug. Thank you for your effort in trying to improve Ubuntu by submitting bugs and I encourage you to do so in the future.

Changed in gnome-desktop:
status: Needs Info → Rejected
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