Bug#546262: kdm crash (due to a bug in libx11-6 o xserver in unstable?)

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

reopen 546262
kthxbye

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 12:34:07 +0300, George Kiagiadakis wrote:

> 2009/9/12 Pablo De Napoli <pdenapo@gmail.com>:
> > I want to report a bug that makes kdm crash, though I believe that the bug
> > is not caused by kdm itself but probably by the xserver in unstable (that
> > have changed the way of handling input devices, in particular the keyboard).
> > [with the xserver-xorg in lenny (version 1.7.20) things work fine, with
> > the version in unstable (1.7.4+4) kdm crashes.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> You are using an unsupported combination of packages (KDE 3 from lenny
> and X 7.4 from unstable). KDE 3 is dead upstream and it is not going
> to be fixed to support newer versions of libraries and other
> components of the system, such as X. Since kdm from lenny works fine
> with X from lenny, this is not a bug that concerns us. To solve this
> problem, either downgrade X to the version from lenny or upgrade to
> KDE 4. If the problem persists with KDE 4.3.1 that is now available in
> testing and unstable, please reopen this bug.
> 
WTF.  If kdm crashes reproducibly then this should be investigated, and
fixed if it's a bug in the X libraries or server.  Newer X libs (or
newer X server) shouldn't break older software.  Only if it's a kdm bug
fixed in sid does it sort of make sense to close this.

Pablo, can you rebuild libx11 without optimisation and send a full
backtrace?

Line 320 of src/xkb/XKBBind.c is:
                    preserve= type->preserve[i].mask;
so knowing what *type looks like would be nice.

Cheers,
Julien