Bug 16458

Summary: bogus (?) xkb data makes server crash
Product: xorg Reporter: Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi>
Component: Server/Input/XKBAssignee: Daniel Stone <daniel>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium CC: tomi
Version: git   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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Log of the crash. none

Description Oswald Buddenhagen 2008-06-21 11:02:57 UTC 
at kde startup (most likely kxkb init), the xserver crashes.
the only interesting thing seems to be the last log entry:
[xkb] BOGUS LENGTH in write keyboard desc, expected 6192, got 6208
(get the complete log without a crash from 
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=17282 )
it does not crash when it does not find the xkb data.
Comment 1 Mikko Paukkonen 2009-04-18 09:35:45 UTC 
Created attachment 24918 [details]
Log of the crash.

I also experience X crashing when using QEMU. Everything is fine most of the time, but sometimes hitting even one key while the QEMU window is active is enough to bring X down.

Xorg.0.log says that the server got bogus value, and crashed on signal 11 (SIGSEGV).
Comment 2 Thomas M. 2009-04-28 07:56:24 UTC 
maybe related to #21464
Comment 3 Peter Hutterer 2009-05-21 18:12:04 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 21464 ***

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