Bug#462441: xserver-xorg: alt key gets stuck

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

reassign 462441 xserver-xorg-core
found 462441 2:1.4.1~git20080118-1
thank you



Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> Since my last upgrade (of many, many packages), the "alt" key
> sometimes gets stuck in some weird way.
>   

Does xkbwatch report it as pressed?
Does reverting to the previous xserver-xorg-core (git20080105 or so,
from snapshot.debian.net) fix this problem immediately?

> Also, when X is in that "alt stuck" mode, trying to install a new
> keymap with setxkbmap makes X segfault.
>
> Backtrace:
> 0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x7e) [0x80c674e]
> 1: [0xffffe500]
> 2: /usr/bin/X(Xfree+0x21) [0x81b4611]
> 3: /usr/bin/X [0x81a6880]
> 4: /usr/bin/X [0x81a691c]
> 5: /usr/bin/X [0x81a635d]
> 6: /usr/bin/X(SrvXkbFreeGeomRows+0x49) [0x81a64c9]
> 7: /usr/bin/X [0x81a6511]
> 8: /usr/bin/X [0x81a635d]
> 9: /usr/bin/X(SrvXkbFreeGeomSections+0x49) [0x81a6479]
> 10: /usr/bin/X(SrvXkbFreeGeometry+0xdf) [0x81a6b8f]
> 11: /usr/bin/X(SrvXkbFreeKeyboard+0xc1) [0x81a4d61]
> 12: /usr/bin/X(ProcXkbGetKbdByName+0x894) [0x81818a4]
> 13: /usr/bin/X [0x818935a]
> 14: /usr/bin/X [0x814d82e]
> 15: /usr/bin/X(Dispatch+0x2bf) [0x808d1ef]
> 16: /usr/bin/X(main+0x48b) [0x807470b]
> 17: /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0) [0xf7d0c450]
> 18: /usr/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x205) [0x8073a81]
>
>   

Yeah, we've seen this backtrace in some other bug reports as well.

Brice