Bug#279570: kdelibs4: fails to load US international keyboard layout
severity 279570 important
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On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 09:34:35PM +0100, Emmanuel Halbwachs wrote:
> Package: kdelibs4
> Version: 4:3.3.1-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I use KDE with two keyboard layouts :
>
> - US (shell input)
> - US international (french text input with accents)
>
> I just realised after a log out/in that I lost my US international
> keyboard :
>
> - the kxkb icon in the miniature box is "err"
I get this same error when I try to replicate the bug.
> - my $HOME/.xsession-errors shows those lines :
>
> kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: KLibrary: /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4: undefined symbol: init_keyboard_layout
> Error loading new keyboard description
I do not however get this error message in my .xsession-errors file for
some reason.
> I have the last line above added each time I try to switch (with
> Ctrl-Alt-K) to the US international keyboard.
>
> This bug prevent me to type french input, so to my mind it makes
> the package practically unusable.
Although it is a very bad bug, which I hope to fix soon, it does not
qualify as grave according to serverity list:
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities
So I am marking it as important, I will try to fix it asap though.
> 'dpkg -S /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4' shows me that this file belongs to
> kdelibs4, so I file this bug against kdelibs4. Sorry if I am wrong.
Yes, this is correct.
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