[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#524879: improve hal-setup-keymap debuggability

[Bjørn Mork]

Package: hal
Version: 0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

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The attached patch makes hal-setup-keymap output valuable data to syslog.
Ideally, hal should reset the keymap to its original values when it's 
stopped.  This would require us to save those values somewhere, and would
also require some thought on handling mismatches between values set by hal
and actual kernel values (e.g. when some other utility has changed a key
while hal was running).  So that's left for later...

With the attached patch, you'll at least get an idea on what hal changed
and thereby a possiblity to restore it manually, fix a fdi file or whatever.


Bjørn


- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages hal depends on:
ii  acl                      2.2.47-2        Access control list utilities
ii  adduser                  3.110           add and remove users and groups
ii  consolekit               0.3.0-2         framework for defining and trackin
ii  dbus                     1.2.1-5         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  hal-info                 20090309-1      Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f
ii  libc6                    2.7-18          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3              1.2.1-5         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2         0.80-3          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1                2.0.1-4         XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libgcc1                  1:4.3.2-1.1     GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.16.6-1+lenny1 The GLib library of C routines
ii  libhal-storage1          0.5.11-8        Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libhal1                  0.5.11-8        Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libpolkit2               0.9-3           library for accessing PolicyKit
ii  libsmbios2               2.0.3.dfsg-1    Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa
ii  libstdc++6               4.3.2-1.1       The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libusb-0.1-4             2:0.1.12-13     userspace USB programming library
ii  libvolume-id1            0.141-1         libvolume_id shared library
ii  lsb-base                 3.2-20          Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mount                    2.13.1.1-1      Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  pciutils                 1:3.0.0-6       Linux PCI Utilities
ii  pm-utils                 1.1.2.4-1       utilities and scripts for power ma
ii  policykit                0.9-3           framework for managing administrat
ii  udev                     0.125-7+lenny1  /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  usbutils                 0.73-10         Linux USB utilities

Versions of packages hal recommends:
ii  eject                       2.1.5+deb1-4 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
pn  libsmbios-bin               <none>       (no description available)

Versions of packages hal suggests:
pn  gnome-device-manager          <none>     (no description available)

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