Bug#355822: xkb: some multimedia sends events forever once pressed

[Gilles Grandou <gilles@grandou.net>]

Hi Mohammed,

Mohammed Adnène Trojette a écrit :
> Please could you test the experimental package?
>

$ dpkg -l xkb-data
ii  xkb-data  0.9+cvs.20070428-1  X Keyboard Extension (XKB)
configuration data

not better  :(

in xev, pressing and releasing once the VOL-DOWN key leads to
the following endless burst of events:

KeyRelease event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x3a00001,
    root 0x76, subw 0x0, time 1322505498, (83,62), root:(89,928),
    state 0x0, keycode 174 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x3a00001,
    root 0x76, subw 0x0, time 1322505508, (83,62), root:(89,928),
    state 0x0, keycode 174 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x3a00001,
    root 0x76, subw 0x0, time 1322505762, (83,62), root:(89,928),
    state 0x0, keycode 174 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x3a00001,
    root 0x76, subw 0x0, time 1322505762, (83,62), root:(89,928),
    state 0x0, keycode 174 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x3a00001,
    root 0x76, subw 0x0, time 1322505796, (83,62), root:(89,928),
    state 0x0, keycode 174 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x3a00001,
    root 0x76, subw 0x0, time 1322505796, (83,62), root:(89,928),
    state 0x0, keycode 174 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False
[...]

It only ends when pressing another key

May be an interesting thing: it seems that the 1st received event
is a KeyRelease... does it make any sense ?

Thanks,
Gilles.