Bug#590181: gdm: Only some keys work in GDM

[Urpo Lankinen]

Package: gdm
Version: 2.20.11-1
Severity: normal


This is weird. This is probably a configuration issue, but I'm filing
this bug report because I have no idea what went wrong. Any help
would be appreciated.

I just upgraded a huge swath of old stuff, including a
jump from GNOME 2.26 stuff to 2.30. Kernel went from 2.6.26 to
2.6.32. Tons of stuff changed and I'm not quite sure *what* broke
things, so I'd love to hear what's going on.

The problem is that only *some* keys work in gdm. This makes giving
usernames and passwords impossible. If I log in on console, the
keyboard works perfectly. If I run startx, I get my usual GNOME
session just fine, and the keyboard works perfectly in X.
Using a different physical USB keyboard doesn't seem to help any.

The keys in [brackets] are broken:

§  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  0  +  '
[Q][W] E  R  T [Y][U][I][O] P  Å  "
 [A] S  D [F][G][H][J][K][L] Ö  Ä  '
   Z  X  C [V] B  N  M [,] . -

Modifiers (shift etc) and dead keys appear to work just fine.
So do space, tab, caps lock, etc.

The keyboard is defined like this in /etc/X11/xorg.conf...

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Generic Keyboard"
	Driver		"keyboard"
	Option		"CoreKeyboard"
	Option		"XkbRules"	"xorg"
	Option		"XkbModel"	"evdev"
	Option		"XkbModel"	"pc105"
	Option		"XkbLayout"	"fi"
	Option		"XkbVariant"	"fi"
EndSection

...not that it helps any, because changing the model, layout, variant,
etc doesn't seem to do anything these days. Not even setting them to
"en" or anything seems to help; it always seems to pick the Finnish
layout no matter what. Bizarre. I have no idea how to override this
these days.

Maybe some corrupt or obsolete file somewhere? xkb-data seems to be
newest version.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser             3.107                add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2. 1.5.22               Debian configuration management sy
ii  eterm [x-terminal-e 0.9.4.0debian1-2.1   Enlightened Terminal Emulator
ii  gksu                2.0.0-5              graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-session [x-se 2.30.2-1             The GNOME Session Manager - GNOME 
ii  gnome-terminal [x-t 2.30.2-1             The GNOME terminal emulator applic
ii  libart-2.0-2        2.3.20-2             Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0         1.30.0-1             The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libattr1            1:2.4.41-1           Extended attribute shared library
ii  libc6               2.11.2-2             Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2           1.8.8-2              The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3         1.2.14-2             simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2    0.86-1               simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdmx1             1:1.0.2-3            X11 Distributed Multihead extensio
ii  libfontconfig1      2.8.0-2              generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6        2.3.7-2              FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libglade2-0         1:2.6.2-1            library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.25.6-1             The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0   2.26.0-1             A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgtk2.0-0         2.20.1-1             The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpam-modules      0.99.7.1-6           Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime      1.0.1-7              Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g            0.99.7.1-6           Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0       1.24.2-1             Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  librsvg2-2          2.26.0-1             SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  librsvg2-common     2.26.0-1             SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libselinux1         2.0.96-1             SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii  libwrap0            7.6.q-15             Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6            2:1.3.3-3            X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6             1:1.0.3-3            X11 authorisation library
ii  libxdmcp6           1:1.0.2-3            X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii  libxext6            2:1.1.2-1            X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxi6              2:1.3-4              X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1        2:1.1-3              X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2             2.7.5.dfsg-1         GNOME XML library
ii  lsb-base            3.2-20               Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  metacity [x-window- 1:2.30.1-2           lightweight GTK+ window manager
ii  terminator [x-termi 0.14-1               multiple GNOME terminals in one wi
ii  tilda [x-terminal-e 0.09.4+cvs20071012-1 terminal emulator with first perso
ii  twm [x-window-manag 1:1.0.4-1            Tab window manager
ii  xterm [x-terminal-e 235-1                X terminal emulator

Versions of packages gdm recommends:
ii  dialog                    1.1-20080316-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  gdm-themes                0.6.2          Themes for the GNOME Display Manag
ii  whiptail                  0.52.2-11.2    Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
pn  xserver-xephyr | xnest    <none>         (no description available)
ii  xserver-xorg              1:7.5+6        the X.Org X server
ii  zenity                    2.30.0-1       Display graphical dialog boxes fro

-- debconf information:
  gdm/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/gdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm