Leopard - Keyboard Freeze?

Same here.

My Keyboard is fine except when I used office 2004 apps. If I close the apps and re-open them it works properly. But this is a very temporary fix as the problem frequently returns. While I am having keyboard problems in Office apps I still have full functionality in other applications.

Ok ... it seems like a Rosetta Bug.

Since Office Applications are still PPC.

That's what I think.

I had the keyboard freeze on me no matter what and it turned out (at least in this case) that I had to uninstall SideTrack (using an external USB kbd) and reboot.

Hope this helps.

--L

I was in the same boot - couldn't figure out what was happening. Built-in keyboard dead, even the Caps Lock light, but USB works fine.

The removal of SideTrack pieces fixed everything! Thanks much - saved me from rebuilding!

I'm new to Apple and MACS... how do I remove SideTrack... and what exactly is it??
Thanks.

Wow, this is just spectacularly frustrating. Happens every minute or two on my machine, which had worked perfectly for several months under 10.4.x -- I'll have to revert to Panther until this problem is fixed, this is stopping me from getting any work done. (froze twice while I typed this)

I'm having the same problem too, using the built-in keyboard. Switching windows doesn't seem to fix it, and it seems to happen at random intervals. I tried rebooting and it was fine all morning, but it's started happening again.

I've got VMWare Fusion, though I haven't run it since rebooting. Someone mentioned something about 3rd party kernel modules and Fusion definitely has some; not sure if that's the problem though.

I'm a lifelong Windows/Linux user and I only recently took the plunge into Mac OS having become fed up with Vista's various annoyances. I moved to the Mac because of the common response from Mac owners that 'it just works', so I'm hoping this is a one-off glitch due to the Leopard upgrade. It's also given me problems with a 3G ExpressCard I use when I'm out and about, but that's another story. I hope they fix this soon!

I noticed something about this problem. I only get it when my external is not plugged in. Im thinking that it may be a bug in time machine, when it looks to backup changes and there is no drive there. I havent been able to verify it yet, since I have been out of the office for the weekend, but I will post again if I can narrow it down to Time Machine.

Also, This only happens when I have iChat open and I start to compose a new message to someone with Safari open at the same time.

Need a fix, so if anyone comes up with something, please let the forum know....

hey it happened to me too; after putting my macbook to sleep for a whole night i realized if i leave the keyboard idle for 30 seconds it'll stop working until 20 seconds after i start pressing keys. I never used timemachine, nor iChat, so what I think it's just a leopard problem. pretty sure it's not a hardware so that's not too bad. happened to my boyfriend too, we had to restart to make it normal again. hope it doesn't come back.

but anyway i think kmfischer's last point was right, report it to apple: http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
i'm pretty sure there are alot of us all around the world who has this problem, and i'm pretty sure apple employers themselves have experienced it, just hope they don't take too long to fix it.

just adding my complaints to the choir:
my apple bluetooth keyboard stops working about once a day, and only restarting my computer brings it back. This is only since I upgraded to leopard. And yes, the batteries are fine and register as such in the system preferences. And turning the keyboard on and off does nothing. The light on the button just blinks, and it is never found using the bluetooth setup utility either.

arrgh.

i'm having the problem too, on my 1.67 GHz AlumiBook's built-in keyboard, except my lags seem to last a lot longer than 5-10 seconds.

i've always been one to leap to the latest OS as soon as i could and it's never screwed me up before, but after running Leopard for a couple of days and dealing with the ridiculous interminable keyboard and screen freezes, intermittent sloth (which is in a way worse than steady sloth, in that you never know when it will strike next, or what to expect when you sit down at your machine), inability to connect to the NAS that's integral to my work, etc. etc., i'm going back to Tiger. it always worked fine for me.

Notch another one up.

Brand new macbook pro practically unusable because of constant keyboard dropouts. I do not think it is a rossetta problem as it happens without office being open. Unless there is something going on in the background.

After looking through the Console, I noticed this:

Nov 14 17:41:28 0-1b-63-c4-ef-57 Console[1762]: Can't open input server /Users/me/Library/InputManagers/iCalFix
Nov 14 17:41:28 0-1b-63-c4-ef-57 Console[1762]: Can't open input server /Users/me/Library/InputManagers/SIMBL

I uninstalled em (no need for iCalFix in leopard, and the SIMBL ƒ was empty [???] )

I was gonna type up a spiteful "me too", (it actually happened to me 3 times while I was typing it out), but now things seem to be back to normal... Here's hoping!

Nevermind. It happened again. Now I'm inclined to think its QuickSilver...

11-14-07 5:55:57 p Quicksilver[869] An error ocurred while scanning "User Accounts": launch path not accessible

Nope. Not QS.

Its happened over 10 times since I first started googling "leopard keyboard"

This problem didn't happen until I read about it in Google Reader. Maybe its a virus transfered via the mind. The more you think about it, the more it happens.