VMWare Workstation Guest MXLinux Any Browser RunAway Arrow Key Crashing The OS

[lrhogusa]

Just letting you all know when editing stuff within any browser, a runaway cursor caused by momentarily pushing an arrow key will cause MXLinux to freeze then need to restart the Guest OS.
In a facebook post I momentarily held the "E" key then after releasing the key, I watched scrolling e's that would not stop.
Everyone have a nice day.

[Eadwine Rose]

Please share your full Quick System Info, thanks.

[lrhogusa]

Nice_Quickie.txt is attached
Ironic, I froze up accidentally pressing the left arrow key.

Nice_Quickie.txt

[Eadwine Rose]

Can you paste it like the instructions state? Saves the download :)

[lrhogusa]

In time I will become less procedural ignorant. THX
Downloaded file 3X DOH!

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System:
  Kernel: 6.5.0-1mx-ahs-amd64 [6.5.3-1~mx23ahs] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.5.0-1mx-ahs-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm v: 4.18.0 vt: 7
    dm: LightDM v: 1.26.0 Distro: MX-23.1_ahs_x64 Libretto October 15  2023 base: Debian GNU/Linux
    12 (bookworm)
Machine:
  Type: Vmware System: VMware product: VMware Virtual Platform v: N/A serial: <superuser required>
    Chassis: No Enclosure type: 1 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Intel model: 440BX Desktop Reference Platform serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Phoenix
    v: 6.00 date: 11/12/2020
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i5-1035G1 bits: 64 type: SMP arch: Ice Lake gen: core 10 level: v4
    note: check built: 2019-21 process: Intel 10nm family: 6 model-id: 0x7E (126) stepping: 5
    microcode: 0xFFFFFFFF
  Topology: cpus: 2x cores: 1 smt: <unsupported> cache: L1: 2x 80 KiB (160 KiB)
    desc: d-1x48 KiB; i-1x32 KiB L2: 2x 512 KiB (1024 KiB) desc: 1x512 KiB L3: 2x 6 MiB (12 MiB)
    desc: 1x6 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1190 min/max: N/A cores: 1: 1190 2: 1190 bogomips: 4761
  Flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling status: Unknown: Dependent on hypervisor status
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion
  Type: mds status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT Host state unknown
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT Host
    state unknown
  Type: retbleed mitigation: IBRS
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: IBRS, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling,
    PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
  Type: srbds status: Unknown: Dependent on hypervisor status
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: VMware SVGA II Adapter driver: vmwgfx v: 2.20.0.0 ports: active: Virtual-1
    empty: Virtual-2, Virtual-3, Virtual-4, Virtual-5, Virtual-6, Virtual-7, Virtual-8
    bus-ID: 00:0f.0 chip-ID: 15ad:0405 class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 compositor: xfwm v: 4.18.0 driver: X: loaded: vmware
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: vmwgfx gpu: vmwgfx display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x286mm (20.00x11.26") s-diag: 583mm (22.95")
  Monitor-1: Virtual-1 mapped: Virtual1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 size: N/A modes: max: 1920x1080
    min: 640x480
  API: OpenGL v: 4.3 Mesa 23.1.2-1~mx23ahs renderer: SVGA3D; build: RELEASE; LLVM;
    direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Ensoniq ES1371/ES1373 / Creative Labs CT2518 driver: snd_ens1371 v: kernel
    bus-ID: 02:02.0 chip-ID: 1274:1371 class-ID: 0401
  API: ALSA v: k6.5.0-1mx-ahs-amd64 status: kernel-api tools: alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
    2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Intel 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI vendor: VMware Virtual Machine type: network bridge
    driver: N/A modules: i2c_piix4 port: N/A bus-ID: 00:07.3 chip-ID: 8086:7113 class-ID: 0680
  Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE] driver: pcnet32 v: kernel
    port: 2000 bus-ID: 02:01.0 chip-ID: 1022:2000 class-ID: 0200
  IF: eth0 state: unknown speed: 10 Mbps duplex: half mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 40 GiB used: 11.09 GiB (27.7%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: VMware model: Virtual S size: 40 GiB block-size:
    physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: N/A rev: 1.0 scheme: MBR
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 40 GiB size: 39.07 GiB (97.69%) used: 11.09 GiB (28.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
    maj-min: 8:1
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 file: /swap/swap
Sensors:
  Src: lm-sensors+/sys Message: No sensor data found using /sys/class/hwmon or lm-sensors.
Repos:
  Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 2071 libs: 1053 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude,nala,synaptic pm: rpm
    pkgs: 0 pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
    1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
    1: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/repo/ bookworm main non-free
    2: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/repo/ bookworm ahs
Info:
  Processes: 291 Uptime: 9m wakeups: 145 Memory: 3.79 GiB used: 1.88 GiB (49.5%) Init: SysVinit
  v: 3.06 runlevel: 5 default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 alt: 12
  Client: shell wrapper v: 5.2.15-release inxi: 3.3.26
Boot Mode: BIOS (legacy, CSM, MBR)

[Eadwine Rose]

That's ok. This is just so much quicker and easier :) Thanks!

[lrhogusa]

**Update** Seems like problem is "runaway cursor locks up MXLinux"

[Eadwine Rose]

Please edit the topic to reflect the actual problem. :)

[lrhogusa]

Hello Eadwine Rose
My topic and description has been updated to reflect what I have recently experienced. Thank You for advice.

[lrhogusa]

I wonder is there a way to turn off key scrolling since there seems to be no solution available for runaway key scrolling?