Some of the keys on my Thinkpad x230 keyboard does not work properly for a certain time

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Hello,
recently i’m having some problem with keyboard.
Suddenly some particular keys

e.g. “s” , “w” , “x” and “2”

these keys doesn’t work. But If i press them for too long then all of them starts to work properly. But after a little time they don’t work again.
I’m using:

5.15.38-1 LTS kernel

I tried 5.10 and 5.15.36rt but nothing helps

Pleae Help !


System:
  Kernel: 5.15.38-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.15-x86_64
    root=UUID=71f51a91-f49b-4cf8-a93c-399aa59b177b rw quiet
    resume=UUID=2d56ae24-4e22-42ef-9901-2bd813914904 udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.24.5 tk: Qt v: 5.15.3 info: latte-dock
    wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 2324A82 v: ThinkPad X230
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: 2324A82 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO
    v: G2ET90WW (2.50 ) date: 12/20/2012
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 25.6 Wh (54.6%) condition: 46.9/64.0 Wh (73.3%)
    volts: 11.1 min: 10.8 model: SANYO 45N1023 type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
    status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i5-3320M bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Ivy Bridge
    family: 6 model-id: 0x3A (58) stepping: 9 microcode: 0x21
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 tpc: 2 threads: 4 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 128 KiB desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 512 KiB desc: 2x256 KiB
    L3: 3 MiB desc: 1x3 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1758 high: 2371 min/max: 1200/3300 scaling:
    driver: intel_cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 1483 2: 1693 3: 1487
    4: 2371 bogomips: 20761
  Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf
    mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: spec_store_bypass
    mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
  Type: spectre_v1
    mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
    STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
  Type: srbds status: Vulnerable: No microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics vendor: Lenovo driver: i915
    v: kernel ports: active: LVDS-1
    empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2, HDMI-A-3, VGA-1
    bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0166 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Chicony Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
    bus-ID: 1-1.6:4 chip-ID: 04f2:b2eb class-ID: 0e02
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.3 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 display-ID: :0
    screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.21x7.99")
    s-diag: 414mm (16.31")
  Monitor-1: LVDS-1 model: LG Display 0x02d8 built: 2012 res: 1366x768
    hz: 60 dpi: 125 gamma: 1.2 size: 277x156mm (10.91x6.14") diag: 318mm (12.5")
    ratio: 16:9 modes: 1366x768
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 4000 (IVB GT2) v: 4.2 Mesa 22.0.3
    compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:1e20
    class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.38-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: sndio v: N/A running: no
  Sound Server-3: JACK v: 1.9.21 running: no
  Sound Server-4: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-5: PipeWire v: 0.3.51 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network vendor: Lenovo driver: e1000e
    v: kernel port: 5080 bus-ID: 00:19.0 chip-ID: 8086:1502 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp0s25 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] driver: iwlwifi
    v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 03:00.0
    chip-ID: 8086:0085 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Broadcom BCM20702 Bluetooth 4.0 [ThinkPad] type: USB driver: btusb
    v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-1.4:3 chip-ID: 0a5c:21e6 class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 111.79 GiB used: 35.58 GiB (31.8%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD SSD 120GB
    size: 111.79 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 0A0 scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 102.69 GiB size: 100.52 GiB (97.89%)
    used: 35.58 GiB (35.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 288 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
    dev: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 67.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): fan-1: 4341
Info:
  Processes: 228 Uptime: 6m wakeups: 2 Memory: 7.59 GiB used: 2.1 GiB (27.7%)
  Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.2.0 clang: 13.0.1
  Packages: pacman: 1381 lib: 377 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8.1 default: Bash v: 5.1.16
  running-in: yakuake inxi: 3.3.15
2

those are not the latest kernels you are using… did you run the latest update from few days ago?

3

Yes!!! I had…Do I need to change the kernel?

4

when did you run the update? did you rebooted after the update? those are old kernels youre running, not the latest from the update

5

I dont remember properly but maybe around a week or two ago

6

but the latest kernels are:
5.15.41-1
and youre running 5.15.38-1
so you dont have the latest kernels
run this command: pamac update

7

Preparing…
Synchronizing package databases…
Nothing to do.
Transaction successfully finished.

8

recently i have changed fonts of my system.
can it be related to my problem?

9

go to system setting/kernel and post the screenshot
changing fonts could be the problem, so try to set them to defaults, then reboot and test

10

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11

changed and rebooted but no change

12

you are running old kernels, so i dont know if you didnt reboot after the last stable update, or you dont have updated your system yet…

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13

I’m Running the latest lts verion…that’ hy the kernel didn’t updated

14

no you are not running the latest LTS …
post formated output from:
inxi -Fazy
and also install the 5.10 and 5.17 and try with them

15 
System:
  Kernel: 5.15.38-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.15-x86_64
    root=UUID=71f51a91-f49b-4cf8-a93c-399aa59b177b rw quiet
    resume=UUID=2d56ae24-4e22-42ef-9901-2bd813914904 udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.24.5 tk: Qt v: 5.15.3 info: latte-dock
    wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 2324A82 v: ThinkPad X230
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: 2324A82 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO
    v: G2ET90WW (2.50 ) date: 12/20/2012
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 25.6 Wh (54.6%) condition: 46.9/64.0 Wh (73.3%)
    volts: 11.1 min: 10.8 model: SANYO 45N1023 type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
    status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i5-3320M bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Ivy Bridge
    family: 6 model-id: 0x3A (58) stepping: 9 microcode: 0x21
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 tpc: 2 threads: 4 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 128 KiB desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 512 KiB desc: 2x256 KiB
    L3: 3 MiB desc: 1x3 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1758 high: 2371 min/max: 1200/3300 scaling:
    driver: intel_cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 1483 2: 1693 3: 1487
    4: 2371 bogomips: 20761
  Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf
    mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: spec_store_bypass
    mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
  Type: spectre_v1
    mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
    STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
  Type: srbds status: Vulnerable: No microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics vendor: Lenovo driver: i915
    v: kernel ports: active: LVDS-1
    empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2, HDMI-A-3, VGA-1
    bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0166 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Chicony Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
    bus-ID: 1-1.6:4 chip-ID: 04f2:b2eb class-ID: 0e02
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.3 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 display-ID: :0
    screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.21x7.99")
    s-diag: 414mm (16.31")
  Monitor-1: LVDS-1 model: LG Display 0x02d8 built: 2012 res: 1366x768
    hz: 60 dpi: 125 gamma: 1.2 size: 277x156mm (10.91x6.14") diag: 318mm (12.5")
    ratio: 16:9 modes: 1366x768
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 4000 (IVB GT2) v: 4.2 Mesa 22.0.3
    compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:1e20
    class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.38-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: sndio v: N/A running: no
  Sound Server-3: JACK v: 1.9.21 running: no
  Sound Server-4: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-5: PipeWire v: 0.3.51 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network vendor: Lenovo driver: e1000e
    v: kernel port: 5080 bus-ID: 00:19.0 chip-ID: 8086:1502 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp0s25 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] driver: iwlwifi
    v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 03:00.0
    chip-ID: 8086:0085 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Broadcom BCM20702 Bluetooth 4.0 [ThinkPad] type: USB driver: btusb
    v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-1.4:3 chip-ID: 0a5c:21e6 class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 111.79 GiB used: 35.58 GiB (31.8%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD SSD 120GB
    size: 111.79 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 0A0 scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 102.69 GiB size: 100.52 GiB (97.89%)
    used: 35.58 GiB (35.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 288 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
    dev: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 67.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): fan-1: 4341
Info:
  Processes: 228 Uptime: 6m wakeups: 2 Memory: 7.59 GiB used: 2.1 GiB (27.7%)
  Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.2.0 clang: 13.0.1
  Packages: pacman: 1381 lib: 377 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8.1 default: Bash v: 5.1.16
  running-in: yakuake inxi: 3.3.15
16

if you run this:
sudo pacman-mirrors --fasttrack 5 && sudo pacman -Syyu

17 
::INFO Downloading mirrors from Manjaro
::INFO => Mirror pool: https://repo.manjaro.org/mirrors.json
::INFO => Mirror status: https://repo.manjaro.org/status.json
::INFO Using custom mirror file
::INFO Querying mirrors - This may take some time
  0.184 Bangladesh     : http://mirror.xeonbd.com/manjaro/
::INFO Writing mirror list
::Bangladesh      : http://mirror.xeonbd.com/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
::INFO Mirror list generated and saved to: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                                                          169.4 KiB   552 KiB/s 00:00 [####################################################] 100%
 extra                                                        1884.0 KiB  1208 KiB/s 00:02 [####################################################] 100%
 community                                                       7.0 MiB  1775 KiB/s 00:04 [####################################################] 100%
 multilib                                                      178.9 KiB   877 KiB/s 00:00 [####################################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
 there is nothing to do
18

i have no idea why youre using old kernels… so try yo switch to the 5.10 and 5.17 and try with them

20

I tried 5.10
now installing 5.17

21

Obviously his single mirror from his custom mirror pool is not synced yet.

from the file at http://mirror.xeonbd.com/manjaro/state

###
### BoxIt global state file
###

# Unique hash code representing current repository state.
# This hash code changes in a frequent interval.
state=58de39efd2a6b3ca8b28c41fb17ed6f1b088720f

# Date and time of the last state update.
date=2022-05-15T04:56:47Z

Execute the following command to switch to Global mirrors (CDN)
sudo pacman-mirrors -c Global && sudo pacman -Syyu