After VT switching away from and back to the server, it still seems to consider Control and Alt pressed, so until I actually press and release them again, pressing Backspace zaps the server. Interestingly though, this doesn't seem to affect other (at least 'normal') keys, I can type normally until I want to correct a typo... I thought this was the infamous bug 11683, but although I can confirm that's fixed, the above still happens.
According to git-bisect, this was introduced with: commit bec4e47d128ec40b58a2c9aae475f6a6fc4323c3 Author: Peter Hutterer <peter@cs.unisa.edu.au> Date: Mon Jun 25 10:51:42 2007 +0930 NULL-terminate device list when synthesizing core devices. This fix is required for 93ca526892c0d22afa05cce6496198c652043a19 to work.
Fixed by commit aa7ed1f5f35cd043bc38d985500aa0a32e857e84 on the no-pci-rework branch, please merge onto the 1.4 branch.
Fix merged to 1.4 branch, thanks everybody.
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