(Intrepid) keys not working as supposed to after upgrade

[Edgardo Fredz]

Binary package hint: xkeyboard-config

Everything was working fine until today. The directional arrows plus the insert, supr, home, end, page up and page down keys didn't behave as they were supposed to, they worked as different keys: page down worked as slash, up arrow worked as a print screen and some keys didn't work at all. Then I checked the known bugs in http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/intrepid/alpha5 and changed the model to Generic Evdev-managed keyboard as it was recommended and fixed almost all the keys, the problem is that the up key it's still working as the print screen.

setxkbmap -print
xkb_keymap {
 xkb_keycodes { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" };
 xkb_types { include "complete" };
 xkb_compat { include "complete" };
 xkb_symbols { include "pc+es(dvorak)+inet(evdev)+level3(ralt_switch_for_alts_toggle)+group(alts_toggle)" };
 xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc104)" };

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Please make sure you have xkb-data 1.3-2ubuntu2 installed. (apt-cache policy xkb-data)

If not, upgrade again.

[Cay Horstmann (cay)]

I have the same problem, but with different keys (in particular, the left and down arrows no longer work. xev reports them as different keys). The remedy is to switch the keyboard layout, with System -> Preferences -> Keyboard. That works for a little while, and then I have to do it again.

$ sudo apt-cache policy xkb-data
[sudo] password for cay:
xkb-data:
  Installed: 1.3-2ubuntu4
  Candidate: 1.3-2ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 1.3-2ubuntu4 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ setxkbmap -print
xkb_keymap {
 xkb_keycodes { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" };
 xkb_types { include "complete" };
 xkb_compat { include "complete" };
 xkb_symbols { include "pc+us+inet(evdev)+level3(ralt_switch)+ctrl(nocaps)" };
 xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc104)" };
};

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

cay, since your non-working keys differ from Edgardo's, you probably have a different bug. Edgardo's bug is (probably) one that was fixed some time ago (and was actually a hotkey issue rather than an xkeyboard-config issue).

Edgardo, if you're still seeing this issue for some reason, please feel free to reopen, and attach your Xorg.0.log

[Edgardo Fredz (edgardo-fredz)]

Now everything is working as it should.
Thanks.

[Cay Horstmann (cay)]

Yes, my problem was that I had an xset command in ~/.bashrc, to map the right Super key to Multikey, and the keycodes changed between Hardy and Intrepid. Now everything works.