Keyboard lock on word lookup

It seems upon the new update, whenever I lookup a word (e.g. on Pages) the keyboard locks and I must restart the computer in order to restore keyboard functionality. Is this occurring for everybody on the latest update (10.10.3)? It is extremely bothersome and I hope it gets resolved ASAP!

I have also been running into this
since the last upgrade on OS X Yosemite. After eight clicking and attempting a word lookup the lookup returns blank and they keyboard become unresponsive. This will continue until the Mac is rebooted. I am running a 13mbr 2014.

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//---first ----------------------------------------------
package test;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
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 "then press down space key and don't release, " +
 "the about dialog will be closed and opened again and again, " +
 "keyboard will be locked sooner or later." +
 "</html>";
public KeyLock() {
 this.setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
 this.setTitle("Keyboard lock test");
 getContentPane().setLayout(new BorderLayout());
 btnBack.setMnemonic('B');
 btnBack.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
 public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
 KeyLock.this.goBack(e);
 btnNext.setMnemonic('N');
 btnNext.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
 public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
 KeyLock.this.goNext(e);
 btnAbout.setMnemonic('A');
 btnAbout.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
 public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
 JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(KeyLock.this, aboutMsg, "About", JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);
 contentPanel.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
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 contentPanel.setMinimumSize(new Dimension(400, 250));
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 wizardToolPan.add(btnAbout);
 this.getContentPane().add(contentPanel, java.awt.BorderLayout.CENTER);
 this.getContentPane().add(wizardToolPan, java.awt.BorderLayout.SOUTH);
 this.setSize(400, 300);
 this.createContentPanels();
 this.showCurrent();
private Vector<JPanel> slides = new Vector<JPanel>();
private int current = 0;
private void createContentPanels() {
 for (int j = 0; j < 20; ++j) {
 JPanel p = new JPanel(new FlowLayout());
 p.add(new JLabel("Page: " + j));
 p.add(new JTextField("Page: " + j + ", input something here", 20));
 p.add(new JTextField("Page: " + j + ", input something here", 20));
 p.add(new JTextField("Page: " + j + ", input something here", 20));
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 p.add(new JCheckBox("Try click here, focus will be here."));
 p.add(new JRadioButton("Try click here, focus will be here."));
 slides.add(p);
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 if (current < 0 || current >= slides.size())
 return;
 JPanel p = slides.get(current);
 this.contentPanel.add(p, java.awt.BorderLayout.CENTER);
 this.pack();
 Component[] comps = p.getComponents();
 if (comps.length > 0) {
 comps[0].requestFocus(); // try delete this line
 this.repaint();
public void goNext(ActionEvent e) {
 if (current + 1 >= slides.size())
 return;
 this.contentPanel.remove(slides.get(current));
 current++;
 sleep(100);
 this.showCurrent();
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 if (current <= 0)
 return;
 this.contentPanel.remove(slides.get(current));
 current--;
 sleep(100);
 this.showCurrent();
public static void sleep(int millis) {
 try {
 Thread.sleep(millis);
 } catch (Exception e) {
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 KeyLock wizard = new KeyLock();
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import java.awt.*;
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private JTextField jTextField1 = new JTextField();
private JPasswordField jPasswordField1 = new JPasswordField();
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private JTree jTree1 = new JTree();
private JButton btnAbout = new JButton("About");
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 "<html> This program is used to find keyboard focus lost problem. " +
 "Click 'popup' button in main window, or select any node in the tree and press F6, " +
 "a dialog popup, and click ok button in the dialog, " +
 "keyboard focus will lost in main window." +
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 this.setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
 this.setTitle("Keyboard focus test");
 getContentPane().setLayout(null);
 btnPopup.setBounds(new Rectangle(33, 482, 200, 35));
 btnPopup.setMnemonic('P');
 btnPopup.setText("Popup and lost focus");
 btnPopup.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
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 btnAbout.setBounds(new Rectangle(250, 482, 100, 35));
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 jTextField1.setText("Try input here, and try input in password box below");
 jTextField1.setBounds(new Rectangle(14, 44, 319, 29));
 jPasswordField1.setBounds(new Rectangle(14, 96, 319, 29));
 jPanel1.setBounds(new Rectangle(14, 158, 287, 291));
 jPanel1.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
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 Object actionKey = "popup";
 jTree1.getInputMap().put(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(KeyEvent.VK_F6, 0), actionKey);
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 this.getContentPane().add(jTextField1);
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 this.getContentPane().add(jPanel1);
 this.getContentPane().add(btnPopup);
 this.getContentPane().add(btnAbout);
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 keytest.setSize(400, 600);
 keytest.setVisible(true);
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 btnOk.setBounds(new Rectangle(100, 100, 200, 25));
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 public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
 PopupDialog.this.getOwner().toFront();
 try {
 Thread.sleep(100); // try delete this line !!!
 } catch (Exception ex) {
 ex.printStackTrace();
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I guess it should be some kind of incompatibleness of J2SE with some Linux platform. Isn't it?
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