Ubuntu
xkeyboard-config package

Error activating XKB configuration on startup

Bug #210734 reported by David Bogner
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xkeyboard-config (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: yelp

Error activating XKB configuration.
It can happen under various circumstances:
- a bug in libxklavier library
- a bug in X server (xkbcomp, xmodmap utilities)
- X server with incompatible libxkbfile implementation

X server version data:
The X.Org Foundation
10400090

If you report this situation as a bug, please include:
- The result of xprop -root | grep XKB:
_XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "de", "mac", ""
_XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "de", "mac", ""

- The result of gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd:
 layouts = []
 model = macintosh
 overrideSettings = true
 options = []

 Ubuntu 8.04 - the Hardy Heron - released in April 2008.

I am using the newest Mac Pro 8-Core (Harperthorne) with the new Apple-Keyboard, the keys are not correctly assigned.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Apr 2 11:26:45 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
Package: yelp 2.22.0-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-12-generic x86_64

Tags: apport-bug
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David Bogner (davidbogner) wrote :
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H5N1 (h5n1-vir) wrote :

I think this kind of error went from saved session.
Try to disable session saving, restart X server, reconfigure and restart again.
Let me know if I'm wrong.

I came in this thought because I saw this error when the results of

xprop -root | grep XKB
and
gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd
are differnent configuration.

It could be that with "session saving" active one of the two utilities cannot succed in changing options or configuration.

I experimented this case in LinuxMint (Gnome desktop) and Ubuntu and in both cases disabling session manager solve the bug.

Maybe it's a Gnome bug?

Sorry if I posted the same comment in different bug tracks but I think it's the same.

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

Hi davidbogner,

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? (ISOs are available from cdimage.ubuntu.com)

If it remains an issue, could you also attach a new /var/log/Xorg.0.log?
Thanks in advance.

The output of lspci -vvnn would also be worth having.

Changed in xkeyboard-config:
status: New → Incomplete
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