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Bug 180861 - Error activating XKB configuration
Summary: Error activating XKB configuration
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: gnome-applets
Version: 4.0
Hardware: ia64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
: ---
Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact: desktop-bugs@redhat.com
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-02-10 11:06 UTC by Karsten Elgaard Sørensen
Modified: 2012-06-20 13:26 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2012-06-20 13:26:56 UTC
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Description Karsten Elgaard Sørensen 2006-02-10 11:06:10 UTC 
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50215)

Description of problem:
After graphical login a window with the following text is displayed:

Error activating XKB configuration.
Probably internal X server problem.

This is happening both on local console and on login via XDMCP.

LOCALLY:
# xprop -root | grep XKB
_XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "dk", "", ""
_XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "dk", "", ""
# gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb
 layouts = []
 model = pc105
 overrideSettings = false
 options = []
 update_handlers = []
#
XDCMP:
# xprop -root | grep XKB
# gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb
 layouts = [us]
 model = pc105
 overrideSettings = false
 options = []
 update_handlers = []

Version RHEL4 update 2

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.login via graphical interface
2.
3.
  

Additional info:
Comment 1 Adam Jackson 2006-02-12 03:55:34 UTC 
*** Bug 180862 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Adam Jackson 2006-02-12 03:56:03 UTC 
*** Bug 180864 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Adam Jackson 2006-02-12 03:56:07 UTC 
*** Bug 180863 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Adam Jackson 2006-02-12 03:56:23 UTC 
*** Bug 180865 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Adam Jackson 2006-02-12 03:56:28 UTC 
*** Bug 180866 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Adam Jackson 2006-02-12 03:56:43 UTC 
*** Bug 180867 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Adam Jackson 2006-02-12 03:57:00 UTC 
*** Bug 180868 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Adam Jackson 2006-02-12 03:57:09 UTC 
*** Bug 180869 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Adam Jackson 2006-02-12 03:57:24 UTC 
*** Bug 180870 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 Adam Jackson 2006-02-12 03:58:12 UTC 
*** Bug 180872 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 Adam Jackson 2006-02-12 03:58:20 UTC 
*** Bug 180873 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 12 Adam Jackson 2006-02-12 03:58:33 UTC 
*** Bug 180875 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 13 Adam Jackson 2006-02-12 03:58:38 UTC 
*** Bug 180874 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 14 Adam Jackson 2006-02-12 03:58:50 UTC 
*** Bug 180876 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 15 Adam Jackson 2006-02-12 03:59:04 UTC 
*** Bug 180877 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 16 Adam Jackson 2006-02-12 03:59:16 UTC 
*** Bug 180878 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 17 Adam Jackson 2006-02-12 03:59:32 UTC 
*** Bug 180879 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 18 Adam Jackson 2006-02-12 03:59:32 UTC 
*** Bug 180880 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 19 Adam Jackson 2006-02-12 03:59:46 UTC 
*** Bug 180881 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 20 Adam Jackson 2006-02-12 03:59:59 UTC 
*** Bug 180882 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 21 Adam Jackson 2006-02-12 04:00:20 UTC 
*** Bug 180883 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 22 Adam Jackson 2006-02-12 04:00:23 UTC 
*** Bug 180884 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 23 Adam Jackson 2006-02-12 04:00:38 UTC 
*** Bug 180886 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 24 Adam Jackson 2006-02-12 04:00:40 UTC 
*** Bug 180885 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 25 Adam Jackson 2006-02-12 04:01:00 UTC 
*** Bug 180887 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 26 Adam Jackson 2006-02-12 04:01:27 UTC 
*** Bug 180888 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 27 Adam Jackson 2006-02-12 04:01:31 UTC 
*** Bug 180889 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 28 Adam Jackson 2006-02-12 04:01:49 UTC 
*** Bug 180890 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 29 Adam Jackson 2006-02-12 04:01:49 UTC 
*** Bug 180891 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 30 Adam Jackson 2006-02-12 04:02:14 UTC 
*** Bug 180892 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 31 Adam Jackson 2006-02-12 04:02:15 UTC 
*** Bug 180893 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 32 Adam Jackson 2006-02-12 04:02:39 UTC 
*** Bug 180894 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 33 Mike A. Harris 2006-02-13 23:06:54 UTC 
Unfortunately, GNOME's keyboard applet displays this message, and incorrectly
blames the problem on a faulty X server.  It turns out the majority of the
problems are traced down to being bugs in libxklavier or the keyboard applet
itself.

I really wish the GNOME developers (or at least the Red hat package maintainer)
would remove this erroneous error message.

Reassigning to gnome-applets for diagnosis.
Comment 34 Joachim Backes 2009-06-10 21:39:22 UTC 
The problem persists in F11.
Comment 35 Joachim Backes 2009-06-11 06:36:20 UTC 
xprop -root | grep XKB
_XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "evdev", "evdev", "us", "nodeadkeys", "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
_XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "evdev", "evdev", "us", "nodeadkeys", "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"

============================================================================
gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd
 layouts = []
 overrideSettings = false
 options = []
 model = pc101
Comment 36 Joachim Backes 2009-06-11 06:44:48 UTC 
I got rid from the problem by re-changing my keyboard controls using System->preferences-keyboard to Germany-no-deadkeys.
Comment 37 Alexandr Kara 2009-06-14 10:14:08 UTC 
Fixed by going to System -> Preferences -> Keyboard -> Layouts and selecting "Reset to Defaults" and changing settings again.

Maybe changing "Keyboard model" to "Evdev-managed keyboard" would help, too.
Comment 38 Tim Jackson 2009-06-29 19:20:36 UTC 
Had the problem on an F10->F11 upgrade.
"Reset to defaults" didn't fix it for me, but going to System -> Preferences -> Keyboard and adding the same layout ("United Kingdom") as I already had, and then deleting the original (now duplicate) in the list fixed it.

My original (broken) output:

$ xprop -root | grep XKB
_XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "evdev", "evdev", "us", "", "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
_XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "evdev", "evdev", "gb", "", ""
$ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd
 layouts = [uk]
 options = []
 model = evdev

After I fiddled with it and it worked:
$ xprop -root | grep XKB
_XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "evdev", "evdev", "us", "", "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
_XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "evdev", "evdev", "gb", "", "grp:shift_caps_toggle"
$ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd
 layouts = [gb]
 options = [grp	grp:shift_caps_toggle]
 model =
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