emerge -pv hotkeys x11-misc/hotkeys-0.5.7.4.0.1 USE="gtk -xosd" The package is affected by some poor programming practices that I'll report upstream. the result is: $ hotkeys X Error of failed request: 0 Major opcode of failed request: 0 () Serial number of failed request: 0 Current serial number in output stream: 11 : Program exiting...: Bailing out... $ emerge --info Portage 2.2_rc12 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.26-gentoo-r2 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.26-gentoo-r2-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_Processor_3500+-with-glibc2.2.5 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:34:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r8 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.3.0-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r3 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.26 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/4.1/env /usr/kde/4.1/share/config /usr/kde/4.1/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/initng/daemon /etc/initng/net /etc/initng/system /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing" DISTDIR="/home/media/dist" FEATURES="collision-protect cvs distlocks elog java-strict metadata-transfer multilib-strict parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/" LANG="it_IT.UTF-8" LC_ALL="it_IT.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="it" PKGDIR="/home/ftp/packages" PORTAGE_COMPRESS="bzip2" PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS="-9" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS=" --timeout=800 --progress " PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/portage /home/sandro/cvstree/tinyos-2-overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext 3ds 7zip X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 amr apache2 arts audiofile avahi bash-completion berkdb 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ogg ogre openexr opengl openmp oss pam parport pch pcre pdf perl php png povray ppds pppd print pulseaudio python qa qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime quotes rdesktop readline reflection resolvconf restrict-javascript rtc samba scanner sdl session slang slp smime sndfile snmp speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification subversion svg sysfs syslog tcpd test tetex tga theora threads tidy tiff timidity tk truetype unicode usb userlocales utempter v4l v4l2 vcd vda vorbis vorbis-psy wma wmf wmp www-client/mozilla-firefox xattr xcomposite xforms xine xinerama xml xorg xpm xprint xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid xvmc yv12 zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" 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_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache 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" APACHE2_MPMS="worker" CAMERAS="canon directory panasonic pccam300 " ELIBC="glibc" FOO2ZJS_DEVICES="hp1005 hpp1005" INPUT_DEVICES="mouse evdev keyboard" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="it" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, MAKEOPTS
Could you give more information on the coding problem you believe is leading to the crash? I was unable to reproduce the problem merely by building hotkeys with the same useflags (I am running the stable gcc 4.1.2 however).
Oops, I had an email with the requested information sitting in my box for a few days (Sandro sent it via email while bugzilla was down). I'll attach it now.
Created attachment 169380 [details] Bug report from Sandro to hotkeys upstream
Looking at the warning messages from the attached message, I think this will turn out to be source needing to be updated for gcc 4.3. Time for the hotkeys ebuild maintainers to take a look...
gcc 4.3.2 doesn't show these warnings for me. Can you please attach the complete build.log?
I can reproduce the X error, and even get a segmentation fault in function dummyHandler(). The seg fault occurs in line 1224 of hotkeys.c: XGetErrorDatabaseText(dpy, "XRequest", mesg, "", minor_op, BUFSIZ); This function will return the error description in minor_op, which is a statically declared character array of size 128, whereas BUFSIZ is defined as 8192 (I'm not sure where it comes from, probably from stdio.h). I think that this is the same issue as in the Debian bug report: <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=495763>. So let's wait for upstream to come up with a solution. (You are of course also welcome to provide us with a bugfix.)
Created attachment 169452 [details] full build log Here is the full build log requested.
(In reply to comment #7) > Created an attachment (id=169452) [edit] > Here is the full build log requested. Thanks. It seems that you had an additional -Wall in your CFLAGS there, which would explain the many warnings. I still think that these issues are best handled upstream. However, the question is who is upstream for this package? The last released version at ypwong.org is 0.5.7.1 from 2002, last activity in upstream CVS (on Sourceforge) was 5 years ago. So, looks like de-facto upstream is now Debian.
(In reply to comment #8) > However, the > question is who is upstream for this package? The last released version at > ypwong.org is 0.5.7.1 from 2002, last activity in upstream CVS (on Sourceforge) > was 5 years ago. So, looks like de-facto upstream is now Debian. I've sent an email to everyone listed in AUTHORS file. Five of them have an email address that doesn't exists anymore. The others haven't replyed up to now. Maybe this is an abandoned project and we should move to something else (if it exists) or fix it ourself. A joint effort between distros' package maintainers would be a decent replacement for a missing upstream.
Ok, nobody in AUTHORS seems maintaining the package anymore. Just one of the people listed have a valid email address and replied he no longer worked on the code in the last 6 years. Upstream does not exists anymore, reopening.
I've updated line 1225 in hotkeys.c to be XGetErrorDatabaseText(dpy, "XRequest", mesg, "", minor_op, 128); (fixing the buffer size) to allow debugging. I've spent some time debugging this through X with my limited knowledge. The bug appears to be somewhere near the _XkbHandleGetMapReply function in libX11-1.1.4/src/xkb/XKBGetMap.c. It gets there from "xkb = XkbGetMap(dpy, XkbAllMapComponentsMask, XkbUseCoreKbd); line 1324 in hotkeys.c". There's many mentions of known bugs with related sections of X11 code, and way too many bugzilla URLs to paste. I note none have been solved. Just adding this info in the hope that someone with more experience may be narrow down the problem and create a patch.
Bad news, hotkeys time has come. I've still been unable to locate the bug... it's somewhere in the X server. Going forward however, the functionality used by hotkeys (XkbSA_ActionMessage) is being forcefully removed/deprecated. Here's the changes in the xorg xserver's tree: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=edeb033f29ae2d52e86c543ccbf22fb7ae1fdb7f
So, what alternatives exist for this package? Is anything of the following a feasible replacement? x11-misc/lineakd x11-misc/xbindkeys app-laptop/pbbuttonsd app-misc/esekeyd
Good question... Lineakd will suffer from the same problems as Hotkeys (well it should according to code). It doesn't even compile on my system. XKeybinds works, but is limited like Gnome/KDE... That is, they'll work until you select a menu or open a full-screen OpenGL app or something like that. Seems esekeyd may not work properly any more. Haven't tried it, but have seen reports it stops working after loading X because X uses evdev now. As far as I know, there's no replacement daemon/program able to capture (hot)keys from the X server itself regardless of window manager etc. If you feel like running X 1.3.0, all should work fine tho.
So the conclusion is that it's not working and that there is no easy way to fix it. Therefore masking for removal. If someone should come up with a working patch, we shall revert this decision of course. # Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> (25 Jan 2009) # Masked for removal in 60 days. Produces segfaults and doesn't work # with recent X server due to API changes. Upstream dead. Bug 242462. x11-misc/hotkeys
Hey! Just a second! It works very well for me. Raphael, could be intereseting run hoteys with '-t' flag. # hotkeys hotkeys: You must set the keyboard type, use hotkeys -t <type> to set it. # hotkeys -t hotkeys -t mswod2000 # emerge -vp hotkeys x11-misc/hotkeys-0.5.7.4.0.1 USE="gtk xosd" # emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.4 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.27-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r7-i686-AMD_Athlon-TM-_XP2400+-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:40:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.4.6-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="es es_ES" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/enlightenment /usr/portage/local/layman/pro-audio /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amr amrnb amrwb animgif aotuv aqua_theme asm aspell async atm audacious bash-completion bcmath bdf bigpatch bittorrent bl bluetooth boost branding bzip2 c++ cairo carbone_theme cdaudio cdda cddb cdparanoia cdr cdrom cg cli colordiff cracklib crypt cscope css ctype cups cvs cxx dbus dga divx dlslang dri dts dv dvd dvdnav dvdr dvdread enca encode enscript es escreen etwin exif expat fame fbcon ffmpeg flac flash flv foomaticdb fping fpx gcj gd gdbm gecko geoip gif gimp gimpprint gkrellm glade glibc-omitfp glitz glut gmedia gnutls gpm gps gsm gtk gtkspell gzip gzip-el hacking hardened hpn http iconv icp id3 id3tag idn imagemagick imlib imlib2 inkjar ipv6 isdnlog jabber java javascript jikes john joystick jpeg jpeg2k lame latin1 lcms live lzo m17n-lib mad midi mjpeg mmx mmxext mng mozdevelop mozilla moznoirc mp3 mp4 mpeg mpeg2 mplayer msn mudflap ncurses nemesi net network nextaw nls nowebdav nptl nptlonly nsplugin objc objc++ objc-gc offensive ogg openal opengl openmp pam paste64 pcre pdf plotutils png ppds pppd prediction profile python qt-static quicktime rar readline realmedia reflection rss rtc samba sdl seamonkey session slang sound speex spell spl srt sse ssl svg svga sysfs syslog tcpd teletext tftp tga theora threads tiff tivo toolkit-scroll-bars truetype type1 unicode usb v4l v4l2 vdr vidix vim vim-pager vim-syntax vim-with-x vlm vorbis win32codecs wma wmf wmp x264 x86 xanim xcomposite xext xft xorg xosd xpm xterm xv xvid xvmc zlib zvbi" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1" 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 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" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse wacom joystick" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="es es_ES" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia v4l" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Excuse me, here is the return value of hotkeys. $ hotkeys -t mswod2000 & [11:05] darkstar@BlackHost ~ $ hotkeys -t mswod2000 & [1] 9277 [11:06] darkstar@BlackHost ~ $ echo $? 0 [1]+ Done hotkeys -t mswod2000 So, hotkeys is working fine.
> So, hotkeys is working fine. Please post the output of the following command: $ emerge -pv x11-base/xorg-server
Using stable one. $ emerge -vp x11-base/xorg-server [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.3.0.0-r6 USE="dri ipv6 nptl sdl xorg" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev joystick keyboard mouse wacom" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia v4l"
So it is still working with xorg-server-1.3.0* but fails with recent versions, as expected from comment #14.
Tell me what xorg version mean you and I'll test it. ...but you should wait for remove it since debian make patch...
and it _should_ be in portage tree until xorg-server-1.3.0* still being stable version.
We can leave it package.masked in the tree as long as xorg-server-1.3.0* is the most recent stable version.
xorg-server-1.5.3 is going stable in bug 251832. We will proceed with hotkeys removal then.
(In reply to comment #24) > xorg-server-1.5.3 is going stable in bug 251832. > We will proceed with hotkeys removal then. > Greetings, After reading that horkeys are now on the brink to be extinct I decided to take a look at the code. I too can clearly see why it segfaults. I have made a new project on sf.net that has the unexpected name hotkeys2. I will take th existing code and clean it, refactor it, simplify and fix it. My guess is that it now has to be compatible with xorg 1.5.3 too, right ? I expect have something ready for testing shortly after easter. Does anyone care to create an ebuild for it so we can test that part too ? /The Race
(In reply to comment #25) > I have made a new project on sf.net that has the unexpected name hotkeys2. > I will take th existing code and clean it, refactor it, simplify and fix it. > My guess is that it now has to be compatible with xorg 1.5.3 too, right ? Yes, that would be a good idea. > I expect have something ready for testing shortly after easter. Does anyone > care to create an ebuild for it so we can test that part too ? We need the upstream package before we can do this. ;-)
Removed from Portage tree.
