Bug#465406: xserver-xorg: some xkb options crash the server

[Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel@mamane.lu>]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 08:13:47AM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 09:59:56PM +0100, Brice Goglin wrote:
>> Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:

>>>  - "setxkbmap -model microsoft -layout ca -option ''" crashes the
>>>    server, too, and also under a failsafe session

>> I wonder if it could be fixed by the following upstream commit:
>> http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/xserver.git;a=commitdiff;h=7018f280406eb0ef899a4046de274cfdd582881b;hp=66f8001b61d12eaf4905ac71ccbb3f304914d00d

> With this patch applied,
>  setxkbmap -model microsoft -layout ca -option '' -option compose:menu -option altwin:left_meta_win"
> does not anymore crash X, but the attached xorg.conf does.

That is, it crashes the server even before gdm starts (not when Gnome
starts as before). Also my original xorg.conf file (xorg.conf.previous
in original bug report) does NOT crash the server anymore.

-- 
Lionel