Bug 437176 – x11-apps/xcalc-1.0.4.1 number keys stopped working

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE

[Description mingdao 2012-10-04 14:03:49 UTC]

Created attachment 325644 [details]
file contains Xorg log for baruch and workstation

The number keys across the top of my laptop (ThinkPad T420) stopped working in xcalc. If Fn+NmLk is selected, those keys (located with mjkluio789 keys) work; but the ones across the top (1-0) do not.

On my workstation the keys across the top work if NumLock on the number pad is turned on. But if it's off, they don't. The numbers on the number pad now work if NumLock is on or off in xcalc.

As far as I can tell on both computers the number keys work normally. I've tried Firefox, GKrellM, LibreOffice, Inkscape...

xorg log from baruch (laptop) and workstation (workstation) attached.

mingdao@baruch ~ $ emerge --info xcalc
Portage 2.1.11.23 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.6.3, glibc-2.15-r3, 3.4.11-tuxonice x86_64)
=================================================================
                        System Settings
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.4.11-tuxonice-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-2520M_CPU_@_2.50GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 02:00:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p37
dev-lang/python:          2.7.3-r2, 3.2.3-r1
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.9
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.27.1
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.2
sys-apps/openrc:          0.10.5
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.6
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13, 2.69
sys-devel/automake:       1.11.6, 1.12.4
sys-devel/binutils:       2.22.90
sys-devel/gcc:            4.6.3
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.7.3
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.2
sys-devel/make:           3.82-r3
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.6 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.15-r3
Repositories: gentoo
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="${EPREFIX}/etc/gconf /etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news notitles parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
LINGUAS="en_US"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi aes alsa amd64 avx bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cjk cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gnutls gpm gtk hdaps ht iconv jpeg jpeg2k lcms ldap libnotify mad mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nx ogg opengl openmp pango pclmul pclmulqdq pcre pdf png pni policykit ppds pppd qt3support qt4 readline sdl session smx spell sse sse2 sse4.1 sse4.2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg tcpd theora thunar tiff truetype udev udisks unicode unicode3 upower usb vaapi vim-syntax vmx vorbis wxwidgets x264 xcb xml xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en_US" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_2 python2_7" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON

=================================================================
                        Package Settings
=================================================================

x11-apps/xcalc-1.0.4.1 was built with the following:
USE="(multilib)"


mingdao@workstation ~ $ emerge --info xcalc
Portage 2.1.11.23 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.6.3, glibc-2.15-r3, 3.5.4 x86_64)
=================================================================
                        System Settings
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.5.4-x86_64-AMD_Phenom-tm-_II_X6_1090T_Processor-with-gentoo-2.2
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 12:45:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p37
dev-lang/python:          2.7.3-r2, 3.2.3-r1
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.9
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.27.1
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.2
sys-apps/openrc:          0.10.5
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.6
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13, 2.69
sys-devel/automake:       1.11.6, 1.12.4
sys-devel/binutils:       2.22.90
sys-devel/gcc:            4.6.3
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.7.3
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.2
sys-devel/make:           3.82-r3
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.6 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.15-r3
Repositories: gentoo x-portage
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="${EPREFIX}/etc/gconf /etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs buildpkg config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news notitles parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
LINGUAS="en_US"
MAKEOPTS="-j7"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp/portage"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext X acl amd64 bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cjk cleartype cli corefonts cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri fortran gdbm gnutls gpm gtk iconv jpeg jpeg2k mmx modules mp3 mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl openmp pcre png pppd readline sdl session sse sse2 ssl startup-notification tcpd theora thunar truetype udev unicode vaapi vim-syntax x264 zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en_US" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_2 python2_7" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON

=================================================================
                        Package Settings
=================================================================

x11-apps/xcalc-1.0.4.1 was built with the following:
USE="(multilib)"

[Comment 1 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn 2012-10-04 14:34:13 UTC]

Possibly a problem in xkeyboard-config. Can you try downgrading that to 2.4.1 or 2.3?

[Comment 2 mingdao 2012-10-04 15:40:55 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Possibly a problem in xkeyboard-config. Can you try downgrading that to
> 2.4.1 or 2.3?

Was thinking the same thing. On workstation:

[ebuild     UD ] x11-misc/xkeyboard-config-2.4.1-r3 [2.7] 0 kB

mingdao@workstation ~ $ eix xkeyboard-config
[U] x11-misc/xkeyboard-config
     Available versions:  2.1 2.2.1-r1 2.3 2.4.1-r2 2.4.1-r3{tbz2} (~)2.5 (~)2.5.1 2.6 (~)2.7{tbz2}
     Installed versions:  2.4.1-r3{tbz2}(10:33:30 AM 10/04/2012)
     Homepage:            http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig
     Description:         X keyboard configuration database

workstation ~ # dispatch-conf 
workstation ~ #

mingdao@workstation ~ $ xcalc
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Cannot convert string "-adobe-symbol-*-*-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
^C


No change on workstation ... RL beckons, will try baruch later today.

Was there some config that needed editing? I've never seen xkeyboard-config until looking in the logs yesterday for recently updated pkgs.

[Comment 3 mingdao 2012-10-04 18:34:39 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Possibly a problem in xkeyboard-config. Can you try downgrading that to
> 2.4.1 or 2.3?

On baruch (ThinkPad T420) the previous version was 2.6, which is stable atm, so I downgraded to it. No change with it, either.

[Comment 4 mingdao 2012-10-08 20:34:59 UTC]

So far this is the only thing I've found anywhere which even remotedly resembles the problem I'm having: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2012-January/053781.html

[Comment 5 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn 2012-10-08 20:37:46 UTC]

You can use "qlop -lu" to find out which packages were upgraded when the problem first appeared.

[Comment 6 Matt Turner 2017-02-27 00:13:38 UTC]

Please confirm whether this is still a problem with current stable versions.