Bug#515734: xinit: changes keyboard layout at gdm login screen suddenly

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 10:43 +0100, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Package: xinit
> Version: 1.1.1-1
> Severity: serious
> Justification: breaks unrelated programs
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am not sure if this is the right package to report this error, but

It's not.  If you're using gdm, you're not using xinit.

> after the big upgrade bunch after lenny release suddenly my gdm login
> window has a different keyboard mapping (qwerty instead of qwertz).
> That is not a fine surprise, especially since in my xorg.conf file it is
> explicitely stated that I want German keyboard layout
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
>         Driver          "kbd"
>         Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
>         Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
>         Option          "XkbLayout" "de"
>         Option 		"XkbOptions" "lv3:ralt_switch"
> EndSection
> 
> The xorg.log also tells me nothing, and from the list of updated
> packages I can only suspect that it is xinit that does something to the
> keyboard layout.
> 
> Please reassign if this is the wrong place, thanks.
> 
I'll still need your full Xorg log and config..

Cheers,
Julien