Bug 196581 – Gnome swears at starup at x11-misc/xkbdata

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST

[Description Anton Kovalenko 2007-10-21 10:37:25 UTC]

When GNOME starts, it says 
Error activating XKB settings

Then it displays following:
X-server version
The X.Org Foundation
10400000

and suggests to attach following information:
- Output of xprop -root | grep XKB
- Output of gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd

Here are these two outputs:
_XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "us,ru", "winkeys", "grp:ctrl_shift_toggle"
_XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "us,ru", "winkeys", "grp:ctrl_shift_toggle"

 layouts = []
 model = 
 overrideSettings = true
 options = []


I have searched all the bugs and forum posts about this issue and have found some descriptions, but none of them helps.

Is there any solution?

By the way, I have a problem that ru layout is not of variant winkeys - it's basic despite that the variant winkes is specified on xorg.conf.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log in into Gnome
2.
3.

[Comment 1 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2007-10-21 11:19:04 UTC]

I've had this too around Gnome 2.14, not knowing how to fix it, I just started with a fresh profile and that "fixed" it. If you can, try cleaning out .gconf, .gnome2{,_private}.

I know that's not a proper fix, but the interaction between gnome, xkbd and xorg is voodoo to me. :) Let us know if it helps.

[Comment 2 Anton Kovalenko 2007-10-21 20:43:10 UTC]

Mr. Cardona!
Thanks for reply!
After removing configs an error message disappearedm but the layout variant is still basic! Not the one I set in xorg.conf

So, still wondering, what to do.

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-10-21 22:17:58 UTC]

x11-misc/xkbdata is unsupported and will be removed. If you can reproduce this w/ 
x11-misc/xkeyboard-config, the reopen the bug.