Shift key sticks down

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From: Timothy.Freeman
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1987 23:33

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I'm running XV10R4 on my Sun 3 under BSD 4.2 Unix release 3.0, and
things occasionally behave as though the shift key were stuck down.
I know that it isn't an electrical problem in the keyboard because it
goes away when I kill the X server and restart it.  This is a
different bug from the Caps key being stuck, because the 2 key
produces a "@" under this bug but it produced a "2" under the
stuck-caps bug.  The stuck shift key first happened to me when I
created the /dev/bell device as per the installation instructions.
(This may or may not be a coincidence.)

Does anyone have any fixes or any similar experiences?

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