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Bug#501654: marked as done (Please change the established behaviour of PrtScr key)

Your message dated Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:47:05 +0000
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and subject line Bug#501654: fixed in console-setup 1.29
has caused the Debian Bug report #501654,
regarding Please change the established behaviour of PrtScr key
to be marked as done.

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Package: console-data
Version: 2:1.07-6
Severity: grave
Justification: can cause data loss in certain applications

[I am forwarding this report from Ubuntu to you.  I have confirmed
that the bug also affects my copy of Debian testing.  I last
dist-upgraded about 2 weeks ago.]


~~~


>From https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-data/+bug/279973 :

On Ubuntu 8.10, in console mode, the PrintScreen key sends SIGQUIT to
the running application.  Depending which application you are running,
this may cause it to dump core.  So this single wrong keystroke can
cause data loss.  Most text editors are unaffected, but most other
apps are.

This problem has affected most Linux PCs for almost a decade now, but
AFAICT nobody has ever filed a proper bug report about it with the
kernel folks or with Ubuntu.  People have complained on mailing lists
though.

== Steps to repro ==

1.  Press Control+Alt+F1
2.  Log in
3.  Do one of the following:
    a) type "sudo aptitude" then spend fifteen minutes looking through
the list of packages and picking what you want, OR
    b) start up the "lynx" browser then spend 15 minutes editing a
Wikipedia article
4.  In the middle of step 3, accidentally press the Print Screen key
on your keyboard.

== What happens ==

* When you press PrtSc, the kernel sends the ^\ (Control-Backslash)
key combination to the terminal.  This is by design, but it is a bad
design.  It causes data loss.
*  ^\ sends a SIGQUIT signal, causing the application to immediately
abort and dump core.

== What should have happened ==

* When you press PrtSc, the kernel should not send ^\ -- it should
either send a different key combination, or send nothing at all.


~~~


Greg Grossmeier wrote:

I can confirm this behavior in 8.10.


~~~


Jason Spiro wrote:

Does this affect the package "kbd" also? I thought it did but now I'm
not sure. Will Intrepid use keymaps from the package "kbd" anyway? How
about later releases of Ubuntu after Intrepid?


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Jason Spiro wrote:

Followup to my last comment: No, this does not affect "kbd". The
problem is only in console-data. In Debian
console-data-1.07/keymaps/i386/include/linux-keys-bare.inc, keycode 99
= Control_backslash. But in Debian
kbd-1.14.1/data/keymaps/i386/include/linux-keys-bare.inc, keycode 99 =
Compose. And Intrepid too, not just Debian testing, uses kbd-1.14.1.


~~~


Jason Spiro wrote:

Marking invalid in package "kbd" as per my last comment.


~~~


Jason Spiro wrote:

I recently tested pressing PrintScreen inside several uncommonly-used
text editors while running in console mode. The key seems to make a
few of them, including NLED by Evan Weaver, become unresponsive
forever. Vim and Nano are unaffected though.

P.S. I will soon be forwarding this bug upstream to
http://bugs.debian.org/console-data

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Source: console-setup
Source-Version: 1.29

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
console-setup, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

bdf2psf_1.29_all.deb
  to pool/main/c/console-setup/bdf2psf_1.29_all.deb
console-setup-amiga-ekmap_1.29_all.udeb
  to pool/main/c/console-setup/console-setup-amiga-ekmap_1.29_all.udeb
console-setup-ataritt-ekmap_1.29_all.udeb
  to pool/main/c/console-setup/console-setup-ataritt-ekmap_1.29_all.udeb
console-setup-fonts-udeb_1.29_all.udeb
  to pool/main/c/console-setup/console-setup-fonts-udeb_1.29_all.udeb
console-setup-macintoshold-ekmap_1.29_all.udeb
  to pool/main/c/console-setup/console-setup-macintoshold-ekmap_1.29_all.udeb
console-setup-mini_1.29_all.deb
  to pool/main/c/console-setup/console-setup-mini_1.29_all.deb
console-setup-pc-ekmap_1.29_all.udeb
  to pool/main/c/console-setup/console-setup-pc-ekmap_1.29_all.udeb
console-setup-sun4-ekmap_1.29_all.udeb
  to pool/main/c/console-setup/console-setup-sun4-ekmap_1.29_all.udeb
console-setup-sun5-ekmap_1.29_all.udeb
  to pool/main/c/console-setup/console-setup-sun5-ekmap_1.29_all.udeb
console-setup-udeb_1.29_all.udeb
  to pool/main/c/console-setup/console-setup-udeb_1.29_all.udeb
console-setup_1.29.dsc
  to pool/main/c/console-setup/console-setup_1.29.dsc
console-setup_1.29.tar.gz
  to pool/main/c/console-setup/console-setup_1.29.tar.gz
console-setup_1.29_all.deb
  to pool/main/c/console-setup/console-setup_1.29_all.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 501654@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Anton Zinoviev <zinoviev@debian.org> (supplier of updated console-setup package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:53:51 +0200
Source: console-setup
Binary: console-setup console-setup-mini bdf2psf console-setup-udeb console-setup-amiga-ekmap console-setup-ataritt-ekmap console-setup-macintoshold-ekmap console-setup-pc-ekmap console-setup-sun4-ekmap console-setup-sun5-ekmap console-setup-fonts-udeb
Architecture: source all
Version: 1.29
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Anton Zinoviev <zinoviev@debian.org>
Description: 
 bdf2psf    - font converter to generate console fonts from BDF source fonts
 console-setup - console font and keymap setup program
 console-setup-amiga-ekmap - encoded keyboard layouts for Amiga keyboards (udeb)
 console-setup-ataritt-ekmap - encoded keyboard layouts for Atari TT keyboards (udeb)
 console-setup-fonts-udeb - console fonts for Debian Installer (udeb)
 console-setup-macintoshold-ekmap - encoded keyboard layouts for old-style Macintosh keyboards (udeb)
 console-setup-mini - console font and keymap setup program - reduced version
 console-setup-pc-ekmap - encoded keyboard layouts for PC keyboards (udeb)
 console-setup-sun4-ekmap - encoded keyboard layouts for Sun4 keyboards (udeb)
 console-setup-sun5-ekmap - encoded keyboard layouts for Sun5 keyboards (udeb)
 console-setup-udeb - Configure the keyboard (udeb)
Closes: 485921 497331 501654 508862 509117 512457 514212 514537 514539 515685 520375 520828
Changes: 
 console-setup (1.29) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ Anton Zinoviev ]
   * Better Arabic letters for VGA16 fonts.  Thanks to Ahmed El-Mahmoudy,
     closes: #485921.
   * I was suggested to use VGA font face instead of Terminus by
     default. Unfortunately in most cases VGA is incomplete so in these
     cases I used Fixed.  I don't think Fixed is better choice than
     Terminus so feel free to revert the defaults back to Terminus, they
     are in debian/config.proto around line 1770.  Thanks to Josh Triplett,
     closes: #497331.
   * Give VoidSymbol to plain or shifted PrintScreen key.  Patch provided
     by Colin Watson.  Thanks to Jason Spiro, closes: #501654.
   * Do not use Shift_Lock instead of Caps_Lock.  Use CtrlL_Lock for
     keymaps that need this.  Closes: #514212.  The idea was given by
     Samuel Thibault.  He also provided a patch for proper locale-based
     capitalization of the letters.
   * Do not ignore XF86_Switch_VT_* xkeysyms, closes: #514537.   Patch
     provided by Samuel Thibault.
   * Recognise the braille keys, closes: #514539.  Patch provided by Samuel
     Thibault.
   * Allow to specify more than one font in the configuration file in
     FONT=...  Thanks to Samuel Thibault, closes: #508862.
   * On first install read defaults for the keyboard layout from
     /etc/X11/xorg.conf.  Julien Cristau provided the script parsing
     xorg.conf. Closes: #515685.
   * Save cached keymap in /etc/console-setup/cached.kmap.gz if possible.
     Thanks to Frédéric Boiteux, closes: #509117.
   * Fix a bug: empty string as keyboard model in the config file when the
     user selects the default keyboard model.
   * Do not display error template when debconf doesn't support the layout in
     the config file.  Ask the user if the settings must be preserved.
     Debconf questions when the default values for layout or options
     (coming most likely from xorg.conf) are not supported.
 .
   [ Colin Watson ]
   * Merge from Ubuntu:
     - Fix property counts in Goha and legacy BDF fonts.
     - Fix keymap reduction not to try to express keymap A in terms of keymap
       B when B includes keys not mapped by A.
     - If reading a user configuration file, disable --save, and don't use
       /etc/console-setup/cached.kmap.gz; using the cached file tends to
       cause confusion here since the maintainer scripts and init scripts are
       expecting that to correspond to the main configuration (LP: #332728).
     - Raise priority to critical for questions preseeded with a nonexistent
       code (LP: #328078).
   * Sort the null variant to the top of the choices list rather than to the
     bottom.
   * Make %.ekmap target depend on MyKeyboardNames.pl.
   * Use printf rather than /bin/echo in setupcon; it's typically a shell
     builtin and is therefore faster.
 .
   [ Christian Perrier ]
   * Debconf templates and debian/control reviewed by the debian-l10n-
     english team as part of the Smith review project. Closes: #520375
   * Debconf translations:
     - Brazilian Portuguese. Closes: #512457
     - French
     - Belarusian. Closes: #520828
     - Bulgarian
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