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Bug 923160

Summary:	Removal of /usr/share/X11/xkb/keymap.dir breaks NX
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <rdassen>
Component:	xkeyboard-config	Assignee:	Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.4	CC:	bugzilla-redhat, cww, jhcaiced, maxim, mboisver, mtessun, pep, rbinkhor, tlavigne, toracat, tpelka, wnefal+redhatbugzilla
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	EasyFix
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	xkeyboard-config-2.11-3.el6	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	With the previous upgrade to upstream version 2.11, the /usr/share/X11/xkb/keymap.dir file was removed from the xkeyboard-config packages. Consequently, X11 keyboard configuration stopped working for NX connections. This update includes the missing file again, and as a result, the broken functionality is restored.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2015-07-22 06:10:27 UTC	Type:	Bug
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:
Bug Blocks:	835616, 994246, 1075802, 1159931

Description J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) 2013-03-19 10:24:55 UTC

Description of problem:
Through bug 835284, xkeyboard-config was rebased in RHEL6.4. The current package no longer provides a /usr/share/X11/xkb/keymap.dir file. This breaks NX (both Commercial and FreeNX).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xkeyboard-config-2.6-6.el6

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
Cf. <http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=6298&nbn=4>
  
Actual results:
Broken keyboard configuration when connecting to a RHEL6.4 system using NX.

Expected results:
Proper keyboard configuration when connecting to a RHEL6.4 system using NX.

Additional info:
Reportedly, a "touch /usr/share/X11/xkb/keymap.dir" is sufficient to make NX work again.

Comment 1 J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) 2013-03-19 10:32:25 UTC

Bugzilla isn't letting me link this to external trackers
	CentOS 6298
	FreeDesktop.org 50553
so noting this here for now.

Comment 2 Peter Hutterer 2013-03-27 05:13:40 UTC

Looking at the NX source, this is indeed the cause and a simple touch of that file is sufficient to fix it.

http://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=nx-libs.git;a=blob;f=nx-X11/programs/Xserver/xkb/ddxLoad.c;h=e69d956703de78af77602587cfd77478a39afbfc;hb=HEAD#l189


NXVerifyXkbBaseDirectory() uses that file to verify that a directory path is an xkb directory. It doesn't look at the file otherwise, so shipping an empty file would be sufficient.

Comment 15 Peter Hutterer 2014-11-25 01:08:40 UTC

We can revert the change in xkeyboard-config, that'll ensure the required files are shipped. Note that this will still not enable NX to work, see Bug 1157866.

Comment 16 Peter Hutterer 2014-12-02 22:14:48 UTC

Workaround as pointed out in Comments #0 and #2 seems to be:
  touch //usr/share/X11/xkb/keymap.dir

This assessment is based on the X2go source code [1] as of version 3.5.0.28. The FreeNX sources are down and unavailable for verification, and the commercial one from nomachine seems to work fine (v4.3.30)

[1] http://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=nx-libs.git;a=blob;f=nx-X11/programs/Xserver/xkb/ddxLoad.c;h=e69d956703de78af77602587cfd77478a39afbfc;hb=HEAD#l189

Comment 17 Peter Hutterer 2014-12-16 06:26:19 UTC

MODIFIED

xkeyboard-config-2.11-2.el6 is available in brew

Comment 19 Peter Hutterer 2015-01-16 04:07:53 UTC

Updated package.

xkeyboard-config-2.11-3.el6 is available in brew

Comment 20 Michael Boisvert 2015-04-29 17:48:48 UTC

Verified on xkeyboard-config-2.11-3.el6. The file: /usr/share/X11/xkb/keymap.dir has been restored.

Comment 22 errata-xmlrpc 2015-07-22 06:10:27 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-2015-1276.html