Bug#594089: keyboard-configuration: caps lock keycode problem

[Tom <tom@triadsys.com>]

Package: keyboard-configuration
Version: 1.55
Severity: important


Testing apparently is sending the wrong keycodes from caps lock. This causes
icedove to open the addressbook and iceweasel to open the bookmarks sidebar
(also happens in firefox on win xp running in vmware). I have reboot with
vmware disabled, same problem. I've tried the generic 100+ key maps and the
logitech media elite keymap (which is the keyboard I'm using - it's usb).
The model name is logimel, which is set in both /etc/default/keyboard and
/etc/X11/xorg.conf. Stable dist doesn't have this problem.

I originally reported this in bug 593742 against iceweasel.

Here's xev's output. The initial keypress is keycode 66, repeat and release
are both 164.

KeyRelease event, serial 105, synthetic NO, window 0x3400001,
    root 0x110, subw 0x0, time 1729143, (166,-8), root:(190,128),
    state 0x12, keycode 66 (keysym 0xffe5, Caps_Lock), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 106, synthetic NO, window 0x3400001,
    root 0x110, subw 0x0, time 1729166, (166,-8), root:(190,128),
    state 0x10, keycode 164 (keysym 0x1008ff30, XF86Favorites), same_screen
YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 106, synthetic NO, window 0x3400001,
    root 0x110, subw 0x0, time 1729166, (166,-8), root:(190,128),
    state 0x10, keycode 164 (keysym 0x1008ff30, XF86Favorites), same_screen
YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 106, synthetic NO, window 0x3400001,
    root 0x110, subw 0x0, time 1729168, (166,-8), root:(190,128),
    state 0x10, keycode 164 (keysym 0x1008ff30, XF86Favorites), same_screen
YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False


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Tom Vier <tom@triadsys.com>
Senior Net/Sys Admin
Triad Systems Engineering, Inc.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/3 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages keyboard-configuration depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.35     Debian configuration management sy

keyboard-configuration recommends no packages.

keyboard-configuration suggests no packages.

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