kdm fails with us-intl keyboard layout set by installer

[jcfp]

Binary package hint: kdm

Did a fresh text install of Kubuntu 6.10 from the dvd; as part of the process there was a keyboard layout detection wizard. This wizard (correctly) identified the keyboard layout to be used as us-intl, and the keyboard actually used this layout during the install, which also added the following to the keyboard section of xorg.conf:

    Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option "XkbLayout" "us"
    Option "XkbVariant" "intl"
    Option "XkbOptions" "lv3:ralt_switch"

Now booting up, I cannot login in kdm; it misbehaves in the same way as kdesu does in Bug #54564: login will fail when the password contains certain characters like ' or ". Upon pressing such a key, two stars (**) appear at once in the password dialog, and the password always fails.
Interestingly, other keys like ^~` produce only a single star immediately, suggesting that these are directly used (without waiting for another character to form âñè etc.) which would also be wrong.

The password itself is set correctly, and console login does work.

[beefsprocket (beefsprocket)]

Having a similar problem that may well be related: kdm misbehaves when typing the first character of a password -- the entire password text field fills up and will not accept any keyboard input (like home, bksp, delete, even return). Many times an xserver restart is required by logging in through tty1 (ctrl+alt+bksp doesn't work).

Using an Logitech mx3000 keyboard and mouse on the usb bus (haven't tried ps/2).

[Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov)]

Since Bug #54564 was fixed in KDE 3.5.6, can you confirm that this was fixed as well?

[jcfp (jcfp)]

Negative, it's not fixed in kde 3.5.6. Behaviour has changed though; ' and " now result in one rather than two stars being (directly) printed. Just like in the original bug report none of the other dead keys work, so effectively Xorg's intl keyboard setting seem to be completely ignored.

Additionally (tested in the username field), ' can only be written using ALTGR + ' as just typing the character itself results in ´

[jcfp (jcfp)]

Problem still happens in gutsy, pretty much as described in my last comment

[Rich Johnson (nixternal)]

Hi jcfp,

Is this issue still rearing its ugly head with any of the latest releases? If so, any information that you can provide that you think may help us troubleshoot this will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[jcfp (jcfp)]

Still with the same xorg keyboard setting, it is now possible to write accented characters correctly in the username field of kdm (the issue of typing ' resulting in ` is also gone there).

Unfortunately, in the password field things still don't work. Since I can't find any way to make kdm display what I type in that field in plain text, I don't know what it is actually doing. A password with ' in it is still can only be written using «ALTGR + '» rather than «' + SPACE» as one would expect (trying to use plain ' also fails).

Kubuntu Hardy with KDE 3.5.9

[Guillaume Millet (guimillet)]

I have almost the same problem: the difference is that it appears after I log out my session. My password contains a # character, entered using « AltGr + " » on a fr layout. If I restart X (Ctrl+Alt+Backspace), the password field works with AltGr.

Kubuntu Hardy with KDE 3.5.9

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Still an issue in Intrepid?

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[jcfp (jcfp)]

Requested information will be supplied once I update to Intrepid (29 Nov 2008 at the latest). I need my system for work, and don't have time or resources to test beforehand, esp. with bugs like this that cannot easily be checked from a live-cd. Thanks for your patience.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Thanks for the update.

[jcfp (jcfp)]

With Kubuntu 8.10 and KDE 4.1.3 behaviour is the same as I reported previously for Kubuntu Hardy with KDE 3.5.9: in the username field things work as expected, in the password field they still don't.

I'm also reopening bug #54564 since kdesudo in kubuntu intrepid also seems to suffer from this defect.

[Maarten Bezemer (veger)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running apport-collect 69045 and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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