[20:54] <harrec[m]> I'm having a couple weird issues. My touchpad click stops working randomly. Cursor and scroll continue to work, it's only click that stops. I thought maybe it was tied to suspension or screen lock but no, that doesn't seem to be the case. modprobe -r psmouse | modprobe psmouse don't fix the issue either.
[20:54] <harrec[m]> And now, ctrl-alt-t isn't opening terminal, thought it was before I restarted, to get my mouseclick working again
[20:57] <harrec[m]> Opening Shortcuts and messing around with the settings (but not ultimately changing anything) seems to have fixed opening Terminal. I noticed shortcuts to disable touchpad also, I made sure those were disabled altogether just in case that was my issue.
[20:59] <harrec[m]> I do notice when my click stops working, it seems to be stuck in mouse-click-down mode on whatever screen I'm in. If I'm in a browser, moving the cursor around, moves the text selection/highlight around as if I'm holding click down.
[21:08] <arraybolt3[m]> That's odd - I've had similar problems on Windows that usually required that I reboot it or fiddle around with it to make it work again - I think it's a hardware issue if you're experiencing it on Linux too.
[21:09] <arraybolt3[m]> harrec: ^
[21:21] <harrec[m]> Well, I've used Win10 on this laptop for about a year now with no issues. And well, I've been on UbuntuStudio for a couple weeks without issues. It just popped up yesterday and persists into today. I also had a lot of updates yesterday that wouldn't auto-upgrade. I had to upgrade each of them manually with apt install.
[21:22] <arraybolt3[m]> harrec: For the upgrade problem, you might just need to do "sudo apt full-upgrade" rather than just "sudo apt upgrade".
[21:24] <Eickmeyer[m]> There's also quite a bit of KDE Plasma glitches and bugfixes that might get resolved by adding the Kubuntu Backports repository via "sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports".
[21:25] <Eickmeyer[m]> Some of which might be keyboard shortcuts.
[21:27] <harrec[m]> 343 upgrades available! woowee
[21:27] <harrec[m]> Thanks I'll give this a shot
[21:27] <arraybolt3[m]> harrec: BACK UP IMPORTANT DATA
[21:27] <arraybolt3[m]> (I've had that PPA backfire a couple of times - it may have just been something weird on my end, but I'd keep a backup juuust in case. :P)
[21:28] <harrec[m]> Yeah I've still got my backup from when I migrated from Windows, nothing new since then
[21:28] <harrec[m]> Thanks for the heads up
[21:28] <arraybolt3[m]> 👍️
[21:28] <harrec[m]> I don't remember if I tried full-upgrade or not, I think someone on askubuntu had recommended against that in case there were conflicting depends?
[21:29] <arraybolt3[m]> I've had zero problems with full-upgrades - I only ever use full upgrades since a usual upgrade can leave a lot of packages un-updated.
[21:29] <Eickmeyer[m]> Seems like a silly thing to recommend against in my opinion.
[21:29] <Eickmeyer[m]> The package management system is pretty smart about not removing things you need.
[21:30] <arraybolt3[m]> (I think there's something that can go wrong in certain server setups with a full-upgrade and you'd just use upgrade in those scenarios or something like that, but I've never hit a problem, and if it's about to blow up, it will tell you before nuking everything and you'll have a chance to back out.)
[21:46] <harrec[m]> Well, somewhere in the middle of that upgrade it happened again
[21:46] <harrec[m]> Anything I can do to troubleshoot it while it's happening?
[21:53] <Eickmeyer[m]> What was the error?
[21:53] <harrec[m]> The click not working
[21:53] <harrec[m]> I have cursor movement but no click
[21:54] <Eickmeyer[m]> Weird.
[21:54] <Eickmeyer[m]> Sounds like a hardware issue.
[21:54] <harrec[m]> It acts like it's stuck "clicked"
[21:54] <harrec[m]> It was fine for the past year before installing Ubuntustudio
[21:55] <harrec[m]> Well but to be fair, it worked fine for the previous week too, so I can't rule out hardware
[21:55] <harrec[m]> Oh.
[21:55] <harrec[m]> -_-'
[21:55] <harrec[m]> i just grabbed my little wireless mouse out of my travel bag
[21:55] <harrec[m]> ...it was on
[21:56] <Eickmeyer[m]> That would do it.
[21:56] <harrec[m]> lol, oh man.
[21:56] <Eickmeyer[m]> And, to be honest, I've had that happen to me. It's like, "WTH is going on?????" and then I realize my mouse connected and nothing is working.
[21:57] <Eickmeyer[m]> So, my assessment was right. Hardware issue. I'll stop short of saying user error.
[21:58] <harrec[m]> :) haha well thanks as always
[21:59] <Eickmeyer[m]> Hehe, no problem.