Issue 232948 in chromium: On osx, spacebar stops working, across all applications

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Labels: Pri-2 Via-Wizard Type-Bug OS-Mac

New issue 232948 by jsundst...@groupon.com: On osx, spacebar stops working,
across all applications
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=232948

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_3)
AppleWebKit/537.31 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/26.0.1410.43 Safari/537.31

Steps to reproduce the problem:
No solid repro scenario, I'm afraid. I have been experiencing this bug
maybe a dozen times or so across several types of osx machines in recent
years (2008 macbook, early 2009 mac pro, 2011 macbook air, 2013 macbook pro
retina) with external standard mac Swedish keyboards (most recently with a
pristine one used for just a few hours). The common factor between them
seems to be:

1. have a long-lived chrome session with lots of windows open (today: 25)
2. (maybe irrelevant, but it has seemed more common in conjunction with:)
in one or a few of them, have google docs open to some editable text
document
3. suddenly, across all OSX applications (Emacs, Alfred, Terminal, Safari,
et c), spacebar stops working
4. except in Chrome, where it only 99% doesn't work (text inputs, url bar,
dev console, don't work): tabbing to a Chrome Submit form widget and
hitting spacebar DOES activate the control

What is the expected behavior?
Hitting spacebar (on its own or with some modifier) produces a " "
character in the focused application, or invokes some hotkey bound to
spacebar + modifier.

What went wrong?
Spacebar stops working.

Did this work before? Yes Pretty sure this never happened before Chrome 4.
(Mostly useful information, I know.)

Chrome version: 26.0.1410.43 Channel: stable
OS Version: OS X 10.8.3

Interestingly, the bug often goes away after nuking a couple of open Chrome
windows. Today, it went away after the window count got down to 24 from 25,
retriggered soon afterward, and was gone again by next time it was down to
24.

I have sysdiagnose files (what gets stored in /var/tmp when you hit
all-modifiers+period) from a few of these occurrances, if helpful, but I
guess they are shock full of personal information, passwords and the like,
and I am unsure of how broadly they would be available if posted here? It's
a very weird Heisenbug, but equally frustrating when it hits.

Attachments:
sysdiagnose_Mar.12.2013_11-04-05.tar 1.5 MB

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Comment #2 on issue 232948 by jsundst...@groupon.com: On osx, spacebar

stops working, across all applications
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=232948

I believe so; I run both canary and stable in parallel, and have been for
many months.

I'll try to have the bulk of open things in Canary for a while to get a
more solid yes – I haven't always checked if it was closing tabs in the
bleeding-edge or stable one that unhinged spacebar, as I originally thought
it was just an osx bug (Apple's tracker had it filed for a while, but it
probably doesn't belong with them).

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #3 on issue 232948 by oyas...@gmail.com: On osx, spacebar stops

working, across all applications
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=232948

Repeated with Chrome Canary 28.0.1481.0 on a mac pro; buggy state triggered
when I had 145 open tabs, and went away again when I was down to 140. (This
machine has 46G memory, 22G of which were free at the time.)

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #6 on issue 232948 by asbis...@gmail.com: On osx, spacebar stops

working, across all applications
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=232948

I don't agree. I do not use Alfred and see the bad behavior described in
the ticket.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #8 on issue 232948 by manur...@gmail.com: On osx, spacebar stops

working, across all applications
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=232948

I had been struggling to find a cause for my OSX spacebar not working. Just
came across this thread. Seems to be the exact same issue.
I did have Alfred on, but the issue persists even after shutting down
Alfred.

Had about 75 tabs open across 2 windows in Canary
Also about 55 tabs open in once window in Chrome

Saw the spacebar start working after killing Canary

Will report more observations as I see them

Chrome 28.0.1500.71
Canary 30.0.1570.0
Macbook Pro w/Retina display with 8GB RAM

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #9 on issue 232948 by manur...@gmail.com: On osx, spacebar stops

working, across all applications
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=232948

Just confirming that the spacebar also starts working if I kill Chrome
instead

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Updates:
Labels: Cr-IO-Keyboard

Comment #10 on issue 232948 by manoranj...@chromium.org: On osx, spacebar

stops working, across all applications
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=232948

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Updates:
Labels: Needs-Feedback

Comment #11 on issue 232948 by kenji...@chromium.org: On osx, spacebar

stops working, across all applications
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=232948

Is this still happening?
Would you mind giving us more details about your setup? (e.g. which input
method / keyboards you are using, running applications...)



asbishop: are you using anything similar in functionality (e.g.
quicksilver) or anything that want to use a shortcut involving the space
bar?

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Comment #12 on issue 232948 by asbis...@gmail.com: On osx, spacebar stops

working, across all applications
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=232948

I do have a similar app running (Butler), but I have been running it for a
long longer than I have been running Chrome. It never happened before
running Chrome. Also, I never saw the issue until using recent versions of
Chrome. But, the issue doesn't happen very frequently and I would say that
it has been at least a couple of months since I have seen it happen. I've
been running Mac-OS 10.7 for about 1.5 years now.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Updates:
Status: Available
Labels: -Needs-Feedback

Comment #13 on issue 232948 by kenji...@chromium.org: On osx, spacebar

stops working, across all applications
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=232948

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Comment #14 on issue 232948 by vo...@volved.com: On osx, spacebar stops

working, across all applications
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=232948

I too am seeing this when running Canary ( 31.0.1619.0 ) and Dev channel (
31.0.1612.2 ) in parallel. The fact that it affects all applications on the
system is really quite alarming.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #15 on issue 232948 by barn...@swipely.com: On osx, spacebar stops

working, across all applications
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=232948

There must have been a regression in recent Canary as I literally can't go
15 minutes without having to kick Canary to make my laptop functional again
today. I too am on Canary 31.0.1622.0

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #16 on issue 232948 by alexande...@gmail.com: On osx, spacebar

stops working, across all applications
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=232948

In my case - issue appeared and disappeared every 5-10min,
- the only key-combination that was not affected was Alt + Space

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Comment #17 on issue 232948 by alexande...@gmail.com: On osx, spacebar

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Comment #18 on issue 232948 by alexande...@gmail.com: On osx, spacebar

stops working, across all applications
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=232948

In my case - issue appeared and disappeared every 5-10min:
- the only key-combination that was not affected was Alt + Space;
- after restarting chrome - issue vanished.

Chrome 30.0.1599.69
OSX 10.8.4

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Comment #19 on issue 232948 by kota.lad...@gmail.com: On osx, spacebar

stops working, across all applications
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=232948

I have same issue. It occurs irregularly and goes away after closing some
tabs/windows.

Chrome Version 31.0.1650.57
OSX 10.8.5

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Comment #20 on issue 232948 by miaunico...@gmail.com: On osx, spacebar

stops working, across all applications
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=232948

Same issue - again, goes away after closing tabs

Chrome 31.0.1650.63
OSX 10.8.4

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Comment #21 on issue 232948 by r...@acornpass.com: On osx, spacebar stops

working, across all applications
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=232948

I am having this problem too. I have this issue even when there are only
a few tabs open. I didn't realize it was related (possibly) to Chrome until
I hit this thread. It is not just the spacebar, but also the alt, tab,
delete keys. Perhaps other keys. Holding the inoperable key down for a
few seconds seems to temporarily fix the problem. Waiting some length of
time also fixes it, but the length of time seems to vary from 5-10 seconds
to several minutes.

OSX 10.9.4
Chrome 36.0.1985.125
MacBook Pro
Retina, Mid 2012
(fully patched)