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Date:      Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:06:37 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
Cc:        gnome@freebsd.org, x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fishing for some glues to find the problem
Message-ID:  <1182319597.60352.27.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070620075813.dux7v2n7zeo4oc4g@webmail.leidinger.net>
References:  <20070620075813.dux7v2n7zeo4oc4g@webmail.leidinger.net>

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On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 07:58 +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Hi,
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> at x11@: please CC me.
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> Is someone seeing some strange keyboard behavior recently? I updated =20
> to -current after gcc4.2 and xorg 7 and everything was fine. Then I =20
> updated this week some ports (all which where stale since last week), =20
> and boom, the system doesn't print all the characters I type anymore. =20
> Symptom: a-z and numbers work, but the keys for German umlauts produce =20
> strange characters I've never typed before. I can not produce @ with =20
> the keyboard anymore (no output at all). I also can not switch to a =20
> console (ctrl+alt+Fx).
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> I don't remember which ports where stale, but maybe gtk and perhaps =20
> some xorg port was updated...
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> I didn't change any config or updated the basesystem (there was no =20
> reboot, just a restart of gdm... more correctly, I stopped and started =20
> the jail where my desktop is running in, but there was no change to =20
> the host at all, and no change in the jail except for an portupgrade), =20
> so I think something in the xorg-gnome chain is eating my keypresses =20
> and spitting out some garbage. Anyone with an idea what this is or how =20
> to find out what the problem is?

The only GNOME-related port that had some noticeable i18n changes was
vte, but problems with it would only manifest in gnome-terminal.

Joe

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