I am running testing.
Thanks for your help.
OH
> control-g stopped working in a terminal emulator (roxterm).
> It is ignored both in emacs and nano.
looks like this is a roxterm specific problem. control-g works
on gnome-terminal.
Apparently I had assigned control+g shortcut to the edit->copy menu
and forgot about it
Now I know why nobody else was talking about this grave bug.
Sorry