Re: unstable and bugs

[Kelly Clowers <kelly.clowers@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:20, Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
> We had a recent thread about the reliability of Sid.  I just got hit by
> this 'grave' one:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=515976
>
> This is a bug in libxi6 which causes the system to (partially, at least
> in my case) ignore the specified keyboard layout and revert to qwerty.
> The (hopefully temporary) workaround, though, was pretty simple:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=515976#19

I might have encountered the same bug, but I thought it was due
to evdev/hal (as I switched my kb config to hal at that time). For
my issue, a workaround is to set the kb map with setxkbmap,
like this:

setxkbmap -model evdev -layout jp -variant OADG109A


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers