RHEL Engineering is moving the tracking of its product development work on RHEL 6 through RHEL 9 to Red Hat Jira (issues.redhat.com). If you're a Red Hat customer, please continue to file support cases via the Red Hat customer portal. If you're not, please head to the "RHEL project" in Red Hat Jira and file new tickets here. Individual Bugzilla bugs in the statuses "NEW", "ASSIGNED", and "POST" are being migrated throughout September 2023. Bugs of Red Hat partners with an assigned Engineering Partner Manager (EPM) are migrated in late September as per pre-agreed dates. Bugs against components "kernel", "kernel-rt", and "kpatch" are only migrated if still in "NEW" or "ASSIGNED". If you cannot log in to RH Jira, please consult article #7032570. That failing, please send an e-mail to the RH Jira admins at rh-issues@redhat.com to troubleshoot your issue as a user management inquiry. The email creates a ServiceNow ticket with Red Hat. Individual Bugzilla bugs that are migrated will be moved to status "CLOSED", resolution "MIGRATED", and set with "MigratedToJIRA" in "Keywords". The link to the successor Jira issue will be found under "Links", have a little "two-footprint" icon next to it, and direct you to the "RHEL project" in Red Hat Jira (issue links are of type "https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-XXXX", where "X" is a digit). This same link will be available in a blue banner at the top of the page informing you that that bug has been migrated.
Bug 1177131 - capslock does not perform shift and key combination
Summary: capslock does not perform shift and key combination
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: qemu-kvm-rhev
Version: 7.1
Hardware: All
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Gerd Hoffmann
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 1187010 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks: 1188012
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-12-24 10:40 UTC by Xu Han
Modified: 2015-12-04 16:24 UTC (History)
12 users (show)

Fixed In Version: qemu 2.3
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-12-04 16:24:20 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Attachments (Terms of Use)


Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
IBM Linux Technology Center 121451 0 None None None Never
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2015:2546 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE qemu-kvm-rhev bug fix and enhancement update 2015-12-04 21:11:56 UTC

Description Xu Han 2014-12-24 10:40:59 UTC 
Description of problem:
Capslock does not perform shift and key combination, just got character '\'(keycode 43) from guest.

Have tested two scenarios.
Step: (qemu) sendkey caps_lock-a
Result:
+--------------+----+
| SLOF cmdline | A  |
+--------------+----+
| RHEL shell   | \a |
+--------------+----+

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
qemu-kvm-rhev-2.1.2-16.el7.ppc64
SLOF-20140630-2.gitf284ab3.el7.noarch
kernel-3.10.0-217.ael7a.ppc64le(guest)

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot guest
2. (qemu) sendkey caps_lock-a

Actual results:
Got '\a'

Expected results:
Get 'A'

Additional info:
# showkey -k
(qemu) sendkey caps_lock

Result:
kb mode was UNICODE
[ if you are trying this under X, it might not work
since the X server is also reading /dev/console ]

press any key (program terminates 10s after last keypress)...
keycode  43 press
keycode  43 release
Comment 2 Xu Han 2014-12-24 11:04:40 UTC 
QEMU cmdline:
/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm \
    -name migrate-install-test-xuhan \
    -machine pseries,accel=kvm,usb=off \
    -m 32768 \
    -realtime mlock=off \
    -cpu POWER8 \
    -smp 20,sockets=2,cores=10,threads=1 \
    -numa node,mem=16384,cpus=0-9,nodeid=0 \
    -numa node,mem=16384,cpus=10-19,nodeid=1 \
    -uuid 5125cf27-4b01-4493-b46d-734d08becc6b \
    -no-user-config \
    -nodefaults \
    -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=monitor,server,nowait \
    -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control \
    -rtc base=utc \
    -boot strict=on \
    -device pci-ohci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1 \
    -device spapr-vscsi,id=scsi0,reg=0x2000 \
    -drive file=/home/mnt/xuhan/nfs/install-test.qcow2,if=none,id=drive-scsi0-0-0-0,format=qcow2 \
    -device scsi-hd,bus=scsi0.0,channel=0,scsi-id=0,lun=0,drive=drive-scsi0-0-0-0,id=scsi0-0-0-0,bootindex=1 \
    -netdev tap,id=hostnet0,script=/etc/qemu-ifup,downscript=/etc/qemu-ifdown,ifname=vnetmig \
    -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:5d:c7:9e,bus=pci.0,addr=0x2 \
    -chardev socket,id=charserial0,path=serial,server,nowait \
    -device spapr-vty,chardev=charserial0,reg=0x30000000 \
    -device usb-kbd,id=input0 \
    -device usb-mouse,id=input1 \
    -vnc 0.0.0.0:50 \
    -k en-us \
    -device VGA,id=video0,vgamem_mb=16,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 \
    -global spapr-nvram.reg=0x3000 \
    -msg timestamp=on \
    -monitor stdio
Comment 5 Gu Nini 2015-01-22 11:13:49 UTC 
Also found the problem on ibm power system:

Host kernel: 3.10.53-2020.1.pkvm2_1_1.49.ppc64/3.10.42-2018.1.pkvm2_1_1.46.ppc64
Guest kernel: 3.10.0-223.el7.ppc64/3.10.0-223.ael7b.ppc64le
Qemu-kvm version:
qemu-img-2.0.0-2.1.pkvm2_1_1.20.40.ppc64
qemu-kvm-2.0.0-2.1.pkvm2_1_1.20.40.ppc64
qemu-common-2.0.0-2.1.pkvm2_1_1.20.40.ppc64
qemu-system-ppc-2.0.0-2.1.pkvm2_1_1.20.40.ppc64
qemu-kvm-tools-2.0.0-2.1.pkvm2_1_1.20.40.ppc64
qemu-system-x86-2.0.0-2.1.pkvm2_1_1.20.40.ppc64
qemu-2.0.0-2.1.pkvm2_1_1.20.40.ppc64
Comment 6 Gerd Hoffmann 2015-01-22 11:43:09 UTC 
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/431667/
Comment 7 mazhang 2015-01-27 06:14:28 UTC 
qemu-kvm-rhev-2.1.2-22.el7.x86_64 also hit this problem.
Comment 8 IBM Bug Proxy 2015-02-06 13:20:41 UTC 
------- Comment From fnovak.com 2015-02-06 13:13 EDT-------
reverse mirror of RHBZ 1177131 - capslock does not perform shift and key combination
Comment 10 Gerd Hoffmann 2015-04-28 05:33:55 UTC 
upstream commit 0ee4de5840ccc1072459ec68062bfb63c888a94d (in qemu 2.3+)
Comment 11 Gerd Hoffmann 2015-04-29 11:06:10 UTC 
patches posted.
Comment 12 Gerd Hoffmann 2015-04-30 10:20:46 UTC 
*** Bug 1187010 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 13 Gerd Hoffmann 2015-04-30 15:25:05 UTC 
patch not needed, rebase picked this up.
Comment 15 mazhang 2015-07-01 06:40:40 UTC 
Reproduce this bug on qemu-kvm-rhev-2.1.2-16.el7.x86_64 and qemu-kvm-rhev-2.1.2-17.ael7b.ppc64le.

X86
host:
qemu-kvm-rhev-2.1.2-16.el7.x86_64
3.10.0-287.el7.x86_64
guest:
3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64

Powerpc
host:
qemu-kvm-rhev-2.1.2-17.ael7b.ppc64le
3.10.0-287.el7.ppc64le
guest:
3.10.0-229.el7.ppc64

Steps:
1. Boot guest with usb-kbd device.
eg:
-usb \
-device usb-kbd,id=input0 \

2. Send key "caps_lock-a"
(qemu) sendkey caps_lock-a

Result:
Got '\a' inside guest.


Verify this bug on qemu-kvm-rhev-2.3.0-6.el7.x86_64 and qemu-kvm-rhev-2.3.0-6.el7.ppc64le

After updated qemu-kvm-rhev package, got 'A' in guest, both x86 and power platform tested.

So this bug has been fixed.
Comment 17 errata-xmlrpc 2015-12-04 16:24:20 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-2546.html
Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.