Hi everyone. I recently had a scare with weird bash entries/firefox behaving strangely. I Posted it here; http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2322454
One of the problems mentioned in that thread was firefox not responding to the keyboard strokes I was inputing. I thought it was something sinister, so I decided to reinstall and upgraded to 16.04 while I was at it. But the problem seems to be back. However, I now realise it happens whenever I have my windows guest running on qemu/kvm is up and running. So basically, whenever I run qemu/kvm, firefox on my linux host stops receiving keystrokes. However the rest of the linux system is fine, I can type in to word docs, into the search bar etc. Another strange bug, whenever I press the key 'Q', my activities bar pops up.
I have no idea what is happening, but It is very annoying because I use a dual screen setup, windows on the big screen for CAD programs and linux for my browsing etc. I also have to shutdown after I close the windows guest in order to fix the problem. It's a difficult problem to search for, and google returned no answers =/ The inner workings of how windows talks to the kernel is far too advanced for me... So I'm not quite sure how I am supposed to troubleshoot something like this.
Any advice or magic bullets would be very much appreciated.
One of the problems mentioned in that thread was firefox not responding to the keyboard strokes I was inputing. I thought it was something sinister, so I decided to reinstall and upgraded to 16.04 while I was at it. But the problem seems to be back. However, I now realise it happens whenever I have my windows guest running on qemu/kvm is up and running. So basically, whenever I run qemu/kvm, firefox on my linux host stops receiving keystrokes. However the rest of the linux system is fine, I can type in to word docs, into the search bar etc. Another strange bug, whenever I press the key 'Q', my activities bar pops up.
I have no idea what is happening, but It is very annoying because I use a dual screen setup, windows on the big screen for CAD programs and linux for my browsing etc. I also have to shutdown after I close the windows guest in order to fix the problem. It's a difficult problem to search for, and google returned no answers =/ The inner workings of how windows talks to the kernel is far too advanced for me... So I'm not quite sure how I am supposed to troubleshoot something like this.
Any advice or magic bullets would be very much appreciated.