There is some problem with the keymap strings stored in the kernel. Unfortunately, I've no idea if loadkeys is broken or the kernel actually garbles or miswrites its keyboard string tables. Symptoms: * Even when only loading the standard keymap "us" at boot time, dumpkeys shows one garbled string (a long string of meaningless binary characters instead of an escape sequence). The other default strings are ok. * I'm unable to add or change any strings with loadkeys: all my attempts are silently ignored, dumpkeys shows that the strings are unmodified. * I can empty the string space with loadkeys -s. * However, even after that, I can't load any new strings. * I can't even reset the strings to the kernel builtin defaults: After loadkeys -s followed by loadkeys -d, the string table is still empty! * After some experimenting, a string named F88 (which was definitely never loaded) appeared in the string table, it contained binary garbage. This is on an up-to-date gcc 3.1 gentoo system.
which kernel?
Kernel crypto 2.4.19 r7 loadkeys from kbd 1.06 r1
please try emergeing gentoo-sources-2.4.19-r9 with USE=crypto set and tell me if that works for you.
Didn't help: Strings still can't be loaded, and the initially corrupted string translation entry now affects a different string, but is still there. Is gentoo r9 safe for productive use, or do you recommend switching back to crypto r7?
gentoo-r9 is the kernel I recommend ATM... Not sure about this problem still.
Had only a quick look, but the RH 8.0 systems I use at work seem to have the same or at least a similar problem...
gentoo-2.4.19-r10, problem still exists.
Still there at 2.4.20-r1.
Is this bug still existant?
Still there: gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r7, console-tools-0.3.2 "dumpkeys" shows (among other, correct entries) string F40 = "\022\37777777611\37777777662U\011\005\010" which was never defined and is garbage.
Could you please check whether this problem still occurs with any of the 2.6.x kernels?
With gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.1, from dumpkeys output: ... string Pause = "\033[P" string F72 = "\37777777651\37777777777\37777777677p\024\005\010" compose '`' 'A' to '
With gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.1, from dumpkeys output: ... string Pause = "\033[P" string F72 = "\37777777651\37777777777\37777777677p\024\005\010" compose '`' 'A' to 'À' ... (I never defined any F72) Also, I still can't load any strings with "loadkeys", nor can I set the string table back to default with "loadkeys -d". However, I still have no idea if this is a kernel problem, a bug in loadkeys/dumpkeys, or a problem of gcc generating bad code.
Have you updated to a newer kernel version (2.6.3 or greater)? Does this occur with the vanilla kernel as well?
I'm currently at gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.4-r1, and the problem still exists. I haven't tried vanilla for some time now, but I checked months ago, and had the same problem.
What version of sys-apps/kbd are you using? Could we have your `emerge info` output?
sys-apps/kbd-1.08-r5 !!! Using `which gcc` to gcc locate version, this may break !!! DISTCC, installing gcc-config and setting your current gcc !!! profile will fix this Portage 2.0.50-r3 (default-1.0-gcc3, gcc-3.1.1, glibc-2.2.5-r9, 2.6.5-gentoo) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.5-gentoo i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.60GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -mcpu=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -O3 -fforce-addr -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -mcpu=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -O3 -fforce-addr -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache fixpackages sandbox strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.inode.at/ http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X apm avi cdr crypt cups doc ethereal gdbm gif gtk imlib java jikes jpeg lcms mbox mmx motif mozilla moznocompose moznoirc mozxmlterm ncurses pam pcmcia pdflib perl pic plotutils png pnp python quicktime readline sasl scanner sdl sse ssl tcltk tcpd tetex tex tiff truetype ungif usb use wmf x86 xml xml2 zlib"
OK.. could you please attach your kernel config?
Created attachment 29542 [details] My current kernel config As requested.
I think we've proven that this is over our heads. Could you please post a baug at http://bugme.osdl.org and post a link back to this thread?
http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2747
