Bug 350911 – x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.2 with udev fails to generate error on wrong keyboard layout

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description tbartdev 2011-01-07 00:23:17 UTC]

entering a wrong keyboard layout like:
Option         "XkbLayout" "de-latin1"
(I had that for years, and it worked... )

makes X detect everything as it should - the keyboard simply does not work.
no error whatsoever in the log file. this is frustrating. (took me about 4 hours to find out)

xorg.0.log follows



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. enter unsupported layout 
2. start X
3. enjoy error-free startup with no keyboard



Expected Results:  
X should at least spit out an error that it won't be able to use this layout

[Comment 1 tbartdev 2011-01-07 00:24:14 UTC]

Created attachment 259104 [details]
Xorg logfile after setting wrong layout

[Comment 2 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn 2011-01-09 16:09:06 UTC]

Probably it is best to report this upstream, we have little means of fixing that.

[Comment 3 Matt Turner 2017-01-26 05:33:24 UTC]

Please report upstream if this is still a problem.