Odd super key interactions on Raspberry Pi 500+

I just recently bought a Raspberry Pi 500+ unit and have an odd interaction with the super key when initially logging in and I was hoping to get some directions to where I should start trying to investigate or pointed to some post/search that I couldn't find that goes into a fix.

System stats:

>Raspberry Pi reference 2025-05-06
>Generated using pi-gen, https://github.com/RPi-Distro/pi-gen, 49e1078c1b07ff4948d304e0149d3bc698e0006a, stage5

When I initially login to the desktop and press the super key (cmd/raspberry pi logo) the menu comes up as expected. If I hit escape or the super key again the menu closes as expected.

But if I attempt to press the super key a third time nothing triggers.

I know the keyboard is still working, I can close and switch programs with the keyboard or type with other keys. Just the super key stops responding.

I can then restart the raspberry pi and it will start working again where the third or more presses of the super key triggers the menu as expected.

This seems to happen when I start using the raspberry pi after letting it sit for a day. The restart does something that I can't figure out what exactly it is that makes it work like expected.

Thoughts or suggestions on where I should start digging to try and solve the problem?


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AdaFruit LTC 4311 for I2C connection?

Hello;

I'm trying to add a display to a Pi 3 that I am collecting temperature and solar battery data in my camper, and would like to use an Adafruit LTC4311 to place a small display some distance from my Pi. I can get the display to work fine with a short length of wires, but the terminator / extender isn't working. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong.

I'm connecting to the same I2C pins (3, 5 - SDA, SCL, +3.3v and Gnd) as the LED. I get a slooowww mapping through ports (like PacMan on Quaaludes) when I issue "i2cdetect -y 1".

Adafruit was out of stock initially, so I got a clone from AliExpress. When I got these results, I looked on Adafruit, saw they now had stock, bought two. Same thing.

Just to try something, I used another set of STEMMA - Header wires, same. I tried reversing SDA/SCL and all of the ports light up on i2cdetect. Interesting.

Anybody else see this issue? TIA.

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Pi52 Rack modules are glitchy

52Pi modules not working with Pi 5? (SD extender keeps throwing I/O errors)

So I've got a Pi 5 in a 52Pi rack setup, and the SD extender module has been a nightmare. Card works perfectly in the native microSD slot, boots clean, zero errors. But the moment I put it through the 52Pi extender (front module with ribbon to back module), I get immediate I/O error floods during boot, mmcblk0 throwing read/write failures everywhere, filesystem goes read-only, system hangs.

The weird part: the HDMI passthrough on the front module works fine with no problems. It's just the SD reader that's broken.

What I've tried:

Swapped the back/extender module (fresh one)
Swapped the ribbon cable (brand new)
Tried two different front modules
Reseated everything, tightened ribbons, the works

Every config fails the same way. The card reads perfectly when I bypass the whole extender and use the Pi's native slot directly.

Is this a known issue? Like, is the 52Pi extender just not compatible with Pi 5, or am I missing something obvious? Seems weird that swapping multiple components doesn't help if it's just a bad part.

Anyone else run into this?

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Sorry for the big old chunk of text, I've asked AI and it suggests that maybe the SSD is drawing too much power but im using the official power adapter. I've also tried making the WiFi kick in later after boot and clearing the connman cache. Anyonr got any ideas for things to check?

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