Bug 1697804 - Insert key stops working after switching layout in Gnome under Xorg
Summary: Insert key stops working after switching layout in Gnome under Xorg
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-server
Version: 30
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Peter Hutterer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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: 1705429 (view as bug list)
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-04-09 07:00 UTC by Viktor Ashirov
Modified: 2020-05-26 17:39 UTC (History)
18 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2020-05-26 17:39:02 UTC
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GNOME Gitlab GNOME/mutter/issues/511 0 None None None 2019-04-15 11:23:36 UTC

Description Viktor Ashirov 2019-04-09 07:00:14 UTC
Description of problem:
After upgrade to F30 I noticed that my Insert key stops working after switching layout. This happens only under Xorg.

I managed to reproduce it on a clean F29 VM by upgrading one component after another. I nailed it down to an upgrade from gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.28.1-2.fc29.x86_64 to gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.32.0-1.fc30.x86_64.

The offending change is this:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gsettings-desktop-schemas/commit/751e44568c73f80097e57ff83952f249468b4e9f


I made a local scratch build with this patch reverted and it fixed the problem.

Some observations: XF86Keyboard has keycode 374, Insert has 118. 374-256=118. An integer overflow somewhere in Xorg?


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
I'm not sure if gsettings-desktop-schemas is the right component, but it's the one exposing the problem, so I'm filing against it.
gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.32.0-1.fc30.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. On F29 upgrade to gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.32.0-1.fc30.x86_64
   dnf --releasever=30 update gsettings-desktop-schemas
2. Logout and login to Gnome on Xorg
3. Switch layout from en to any other layout using default shortcut Win+Space.

Actual results:
Insert key stops working

Output in xev, when key is pressed and released:

FocusOut event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x2400001,
    mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor

FocusIn event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x2400001,
    mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor

KeymapNotify event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
    keys:  2   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   
           0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0  

Expected results:

KeyPress event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x2400001,
    root 0x2b3, subw 0x0, time 157492, (83,547), root:(921,691),
    state 0x0, keycode 118 (keysym 0xff63, Insert), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x2400001,
    root 0x2b3, subw 0x0, time 157537, (83,547), root:(921,691),
    state 0x0, keycode 118 (keysym 0xff63, Insert), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 


Additional info:
Downgrading gsettings-desktop-schemas (or installing a package with the patch reverted) or changing the shortcut for changing layouts fixes the problem.

Comment 1 Hedayat Vatankhah 2019-04-15 11:23:37 UTC
Interestingly, the commit you mentioned says: "The key will only be usable on a wayland session."

Comment 2 Hedayat Vatankhah 2019-04-15 11:25:22 UTC
Yet another interesting comment in: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101521
which might be related to the overflow you guessed:

NB: XF86Keyboard is a relatively new keysym and therefore needs
recent protocol headers. Also KEY_KEYBOARD's keysym is > 255
and therefore needs a recent xkbcomp (as the new KEY_FAVORITES).

Comment 3 olegon.ru 2019-05-14 19:03:38 UTC
Yet another pains...
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1705429#c2

Comment 4 Viktor Ashirov 2019-05-14 20:02:49 UTC
*** Bug 1705429 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Viktor Ashirov 2019-05-14 20:11:15 UTC
Peter, could you please take a look at this?
I'm not sure if this is filed against the right component. 

Thanks!

Comment 6 Peter Hutterer 2019-05-29 06:18:44 UTC
Looks like this is an X server problem. XI2 allows for 32-bit keycode and mutter eventually calls XIGrabKeycode() with 374. In the server's CreateGrab() that's clipped to a 8-bit int without any checks. The actual grab stored is thus for (keycode % 256) and that's where the insert confusion comes from. Thanks for tracking this down, this certainly made debugging it easier :)

Comment 7 Peter Hutterer 2019-05-29 06:33:53 UTC
There's a scratch build running here now: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=35120898

Can you please test this one and let me know if you see any side-effects? Shouldn't be, but one never knows.

Comment 8 Viktor Ashirov 2019-05-29 10:45:05 UTC
Thank you, Peter!

I did a quick test and it seems to work fine. My Insert key works properly after switching layouts. And the other media keys on my ThinkPad T440s work too. AFAIK, I don't have any keys with keycode>255, so can't test that.

Comment 9 Alexander Bokovoy 2019-06-20 09:34:45 UTC
Any hope to get this patch to Fedora 30 updates?

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2019-06-24 00:56:57 UTC
FEDORA-2019-48cc1b129e has been submitted as an update to Fedora 30. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-48cc1b129e

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2019-06-25 02:11:13 UTC
xorg-x11-server-1.20.5-2.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-48cc1b129e

Comment 12 Ben Cotton 2020-04-30 20:52:54 UTC
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