Bug 638809
| Summary: | system-config-keyboard breaks xorg when an xorg.conf is already present | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Heldwin <heldwin> |
| Component: | system-config-keyboard | Assignee: | Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 15 | CC: | a.badger, abetakehiko, athmanem, heldwin, lkundrak, robatino |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Reopened |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2012-08-07 20:14:49 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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By removing the Section Server Layout, it is possible to boot in runlevel 5 Or by adding the missing parts in xorg.conf:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Main Layout"
Screen "Screen[0]" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
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The Version can be changed to 15, since it happens there as well as on 13 and 14.
BTW, the cleanest way to recover this is to just remove/move xorg.conf and reinstall the VirtualBox guest additions to recreate the file. But whatever changes were made by s-c-k will be lost. Just tested on F14 bare metal. I can confirm that this is not happening there. system-config-keyboard is only creating /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-system-setup-keyboard.conf there and that file only has an InputClass section. Tested on bare metal on a machine with an nVidia video card using the Rpmfusion driver. If xorg.conf does not already exist, it does not get created. If it does exist, system-config-keyboard modifies it. If the xorg.conf is generated by the Rpmfusion driver, it gets broken similarly to the one generated by VirtualBox (there is a header line "# This configuration file was broken by system-config-keyboard"). If it is generated using "Xorg :1 -configure" followed by "cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf", it does not seem to be broken, at least according to s-c-k (there is no header line "# This configuration file was broken by system-config-keyboard"). I have not checked to see if X actually boots in this case. So the problem seems to be that if xorg.conf already exists, it gets modified, and in at least 2 common cases, it gets broken with s-c-k being aware of the fact but not making a backup or notifying the user when this is happening (so one only finds that it is broken when starting X the next time, and troubleshooting the problem). I confirm that this only affect system with xorg.conf (not default eg: VBox/VMware with guest addition, hosts with proprietary drivers), system-config-keyboard by default generate config in: xorg.conf.d/00-system-setup-keyboard.conf It can be also related to X config parser: pyxf86config Refs.: keyboard_backend.py line 33 Fedora 13 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2011-06-25. Fedora 13 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. Can the original reporter or the maintainer reopen this against F15 (since the problem still exists there)? This message is a notice that Fedora 15 is now at end of life. Fedora has stopped maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 15. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At this time, all open bugs with a Fedora 'version' of '15' have been closed as WONTFIX. (Please note: Our normal process is to give advanced warning of this occurring, but we forgot to do that. A thousand apologies.) Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, feel free to reopen this bug and simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were unable to fix it before Fedora 15 reached end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged to click on "Clone This Bug" (top right of this page) and open it against that version of Fedora. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping |
Description of problem: system-config-keyboard breaks xorg in virtualbox (3.2.8) when using Guest Addition. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-config-keyboard-1.3.1-1.fc12.i686 How reproducible: Always , , Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install F13 as a VM in VirtualBox 2. Install the VBoxLinuxAddition 3. Change the keyboard using system-config-keyboard 4. Reboot Actual results: System doesn't boot in runlevel 5 Expected results: System boot in runlevel 5 Additional info: In Xorg.0.log: Parse error on line 6 of section ServerLayout in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf This section must have an Identifier line. (EE) Problem parsing the config file (EE) Error parsing the config file error: no screens found ------------------------------------------------------------------------- In xorg.conf, after using system-config-keyboard: # This configuration file was broken by system-config-keyboard Section "ServerLayout" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message when switching 2 times keyboard: Loading /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwertz/fr_CH.map.gz Parse error on line 6 of section ServerLayout in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf This section must have an Identifier line. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/system-config-keyboard/system-config-keyboard.py", line 68, in <module> useCliMode(kbdtype, help) File "/usr/share/system-config-keyboard/system-config-keyboard.py", line 50, in useCliMode app = keyboard_cli.childWindow(kbdtype, help) File "/usr/share/system-config-keyboard/keyboard_cli.py", line 70, in __init__ keyboardBackend.modifyXconfig(fullname, layout, model, variant, options) File "/usr/share/system-config-keyboard/keyboard_backend.py", line 39, in modifyXconfig xconfig.comment = "\n# This configuration file was broken by system-config-keyboard\n" AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'comment'