Bug 21931

Summary:	LightDM has numlock LED indicator on, but numlock is not engaged.
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Herman Viaene <herman.viaene>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Jani Välimaa <jani.valimaa>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11, ouaurelien
Version:	6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	lightdm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Herman Viaene 2017-10-25 10:02:34 CEST

Description of problem:
Booting a system using LightDM (default when installing with Xfce as desktop). The numlock indicator (small light on laptop) goes on during the boot process, stays on, but when trying to enter a password containing numbers, no numbers can be entered using the numeric keypad. Pressing the numlock button does not change the numlock indicator, but engages the numlock really.

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


How reproducible:
I've seen this on a desktop which has only Xfce, and on my test laptop which has Xfce and MATE installed. The numlock package is installed by default, but whether it is running or removed does not make any difference.

Note: it all concerns AZERTY keyboards where the numbers on the alphabetic pad are uppercase characters, so the numeric keypad not working is a nuisance.

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2017-10-25 10:17:08 CEST

It sounds as if you don't have the same issue when using SDDM or GDM.... is that right?

In "man setleds" I read:

> BUGS
>        In  keyboard  application  mode  the NumLock key does not influence the
>        NumLock flag setting.


I'm wondering whether that's related.

CC'ing the LightDM maintainer

CC: (none) => marja11
Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Marja Van Waes 2017-10-25 10:17:54 CEST

CC: (none) => jani.valimaa

Marja Van Waes 2017-10-25 10:19:37 CEST

Summary: LightDM has numlock indicator on, but numlock is not engaged. => LightDM has numlock LED indicator on, but numlock is not engaged.

Comment 2 Herman Viaene 2017-10-25 10:32:02 CEST

Indeed, no issue in SDDM, never tried GDM up to now.

Comment 3 Marja Van Waes 2017-10-25 13:24:53 CEST

(In reply to Herman Viaene from comment #2)
> Indeed, no issue in SDDM, never tried GDM up to now.

Thanks, assigning to lightdm, then

Source RPM: (none) => lightdm
Assignee: bugsquad => jani.valimaa

Marja Van Waes 2017-10-25 13:25:24 CEST

CC: jani.valimaa => (none)
Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)

Comment 4 Aurelien Oudelet 2020-08-05 16:33:44 CEST

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CC: (none) => ouaurelien
Resolution: (none) => OLD
Status: NEW => RESOLVED