Bug#365488: Current GNOME crashes X

[Denis Barbier]

On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 04:16:01AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mercredi 17 mai 2006 à 12:26 -0500, Donald King a écrit :
> > Ever since a GNOME upgrade around late April, I haven't been able to use
> > GNOME at all.  By downgrading to Sarge versions of the kernel, X, and
> > GNOME, I narrowed it down to GNOME, although not to any particular
> > package.  However, it's almost certainly gnome-session or one of its
> > dependencies.  Sorry I can't be more specific, but gnome-session pulls
> > in a big circular mess.
> 
> This has nothing to do with gnome-session, this is a X server bug
> triggered by gnome-settings-daemon when setting the keyboard properties.
[...]
> This is a really nasty bug in Xorg 6.9, which seems to be triggered by
> libxklavier. It's really hurting testing users as they can't login to
> gnome when they have set some keyboard settings.
> 
> How is going the testing migration of Xorg 7.0? As it doesn't look like
> it will happen soon, would it be possible to upload fixed packages for
> this bug to testing-proposed-updates, if the actual patch that fixed
> this bug is known?

My understanding is that libxklavier10 has been changed in 2.2-2 and
2.2-3 to support X.Org 7.0, and should have migrated to testing along
with X.Org 7.0.
These changes have to be reverted in testing.  If 2.2-4 is uploaded to
unstable with the contents of 2.2-1, it will not work with X.Org 7.0.
If 2.2-1 can be reuploaded directly into testing with a version bump,
that would be ideal.  An upload into unstable is also needed so that
the version in unstable is greater than the one in testing, and an
RC bug against libxklavier10 has to be filed to prevent this version
from entering testing.

Denis