[Spice-devel] Bug : KeyEvent up not sent?

[Alon Levy]

On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 11:35:09PM +0200, Frédéric Grelot wrote:
> Just tried again :
> I launched my F14 guest, and could trigger the bug after the 3rd key.
> I pressed 1, 2, 3, .... just enough time to have "1111111111122222222223333333333...", and at 3, it kept writing while I released.
> I have a wireshark session of it, but don't really know what to do with it (I know there is work on a wireshark dissector, but I don't think it has been pushed upstream yet, since I can't find "spice" in the protocol list).
> 

Hi Frederic,

 There is an experimental build of wireshark with a spice dissector available
 at spice-space.org/download.html#wireshark, you can try that.

Alon

> Frederic.
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> ----- Mail original -----
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've not been able to provide more information about this bug, but it
> > happened again today, using :
> > -same server
> > -wired ethernet (Gb, 1 switch only, never had any problems)
> > -recent client from git (cloned, say 1 week ago)
> > -latest qemu/spice from virt-preview repo
> > -more decent (i.e. powerfull) client hardware
> > -F14 and F15 alpha (x86_64) guests, even got the bug during F15_alpha
> > install (anaconda)
> >
> > The problem was identical : I press one key, and it stays pressed
> > although I released it.
> > I just thought about this : I don't remember using the mouse at the
> > same "time", but can not say for sure.
> >
> > Hope this helps!
> >
> > Could you give an idea of the amount of traffic between spice client
> > and server? the bug does not occur really often, so maybe I should
> > setup wireshark, but I don't know if it will hold...
> >
> > Thanks for your help (and your work!)
> >
> > Frederic.
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Mail original -----
> > > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:45:15PM +0100, Frédéric Grelot wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I'm currently using Spice to develop on a remote computer (more
> > > > powerfull than my laptop, which makes me spare quite a lot of
> > > > time
> > > > waiting for the builds!), and I come to a quite annoying bug when
> > > > I use it : relatively often, some event seem not to be sent.
> > > > The most noticeable is a keyevent up, since the character keeps
> > > > printing, but I cannot say that other events are not dropped. I
> > > > waited for few seconds and the event is definitely lost : the
> > > > only
> > > > way to stop the characters from printing (or removing if I
> > > > pressed
> > > > backspace!) is to press/release another key.
> > > > I don't really know how to get more information about this bug :
> > > > there is nothing in the logs (client, server, and tail -f
> > > > /var/log/* on the guest shows nothing).
> > > > My versions are as follow :
> > > > -server : git, spice.kvm.v28, fedora 14, all updates
> > > > -client : built from git, 0.7.3, Ubuntu 10.10, all updates
> > > > -guest : fedora 14, all updates
> > > >
> > > > This is quite annoying, since it happens almost once every 20 key
> > > > pressed I would say, which is quite a lot!
> > > > It happens whether I am in fullscreen or not.
> > > >
> > > > Tell me if you need more information about this, I would be
> > > > pleased
> > > > to help!
> > >
> > > What kind of network? I mean, can you reproduce this with
> > > localhost?
> > > (client == server) Or can you create
> > > some synthetic environment to trigger it? Is it a specific key (ok,
> > > I'm reaching)? Does it happen when the guest
> > > is in X only, or also console?
> > > >
> > > > Frederic.
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