Created attachment 316147 [details]
Xorg*log

Description of problem:

I am preparing package for awesome window manager, see bug 452427. It happened in lot of times that after startup of awesome the winkey/mod4 key does not work. It is very annoying because it's the primary functional key.

I am attaching three files, they are outputs from xev (just the winkey/mod4 key press and release). winkey.bad and winkey.bad2 are outputs from xev in awesome when the winkey does not worked and winkey.good when it worked OK. Running vimdiff on all three seems to be interesting in two points.

1) "KeyPress event, serial 2X"
is 25 in good, and 22 or 25 on bad case

2) "KeyRelease event -> state 0x40"
In both bad cases it's "state 0x0" and in good one it's "state 0x40"

It's not happening in GNOME, but I guess the problem is more on Xserver side then on the one of awesome.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.4.99.906-1.fc9.i386
awesome-3.0-0.8.rc6.fc9.i386 from bug 452427

How reproducible:

In half of cases the mod4 does not work, sometimes reset of Xserver does the job and mod4 key runs OK, but sometimes it does not did the trick.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install awesome
2. log into in via GDM
3. mod4 key sometimes fails and sometimes it doesn't
  

Additional info:

It happens on RHEL with awesome-2 too, I ran, in the past, awesome on gentoo with no problem.