[Bug 1169004] Re: friendly-recovery: failsafeX dialog is not keyboard controllable

[Brian Murray]

I was unable to recreate this on Raring (13.04) with a Lenovo X201
Tablet.  Either way though this is a bug with the failsafeXServer which
is provided by xdiagnose so I am changing the package appropriately.

** Package changed: friendly-recovery (Ubuntu) => xdiagnose (Ubuntu)

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Title:
  friendly-recovery: failsafeX dialog is not keyboard controllable

Status in “xdiagnose” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  1. boot my laptop into recovery mode with no external mouse connected
     (only the laptop's builtin trackpad)
  2. from the "Recovery Menu", select "failsafeX"

  (This is a Lenovo ThinkPad T500 with Synaptics trackpad -- pretty
  vanilla hardware that normally works perfectly with both gpm and
  X.org.)

  Expected behaviour:
  - failsafe dialogs are controllable by keyboard (or by builtin trackpad)

  Actual behaviour:
  - initial dialog is keyboard controllable (space or enter clicks the
    "OK" button)
  - but the second dialog ("What would you like to do?") is completely
    unresponsive: I cannot use tab or arrow keys to select different
    radiobuttons, I cannot use space or enter to click OK, the builtin
    trackpad does not work. There is no way to get into the failsafe X
    session. The only way out is Ctrl-Alt-F2 back to a text console
    followed by manual recovery. It's not quite failsafe!

  Workaround: connect a USB mouse. Or reboot with USB mouse connected. I
  think. If a USB mouse is connected *and working*, then the trackpad
  magically starts working. But the USB mouse isn't always recognized, I
  think. Unclear what it takes to make it work.

  Anyways, even if the trackpad worked perfectly with or without a mouse
  connected, this GUI should still be entirely keyboard controllable.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: friendly-recovery 0.2.25
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-27.46-generic 3.5.7.7
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-27-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun Apr 14 21:57:34 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-09-30 (196 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120823.1)
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: friendly-recovery
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-11-22 (143 days ago)

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