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Greeter always defaults to USA keyboard layout, ignoring system configuration

Bug #442115 reported by Max Bowsher
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gdm (Ubuntu)
Expired
Low
Unassigned
Nominated for Karmic by Max Bowsher

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gdm

My system keyboard layout as defined in /etc/default/console-setup is "gb" - however the gdm greeter defaults to "USA".

I originally reported this as a confirmation of bug 401047, but that ended up being about variants only, whereas my problem is that not even layout configuration is propagated to gdm.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 4 11:46:13 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gdm 2.28.0-0ubuntu12
ProcEnviron:
 LC_COLLATE=C
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
SourcePackage: gdm
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2284): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2284): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2369): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:2363): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (gnome-panel:2362): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -1 and height 24

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Max Bowsher (maxb) wrote :
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Can you please check if "lshal" has the correct layout? (input.xkb.layout). If you are unsure, please do

  lshal > /tmp/hal.txt

and attach /tmp/hal.txt here. Thanks!

Changed in gdm (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Max Bowsher (maxb) wrote :

The input.xkb.* properties are present in hal as expected. I'll attach hal.txt anyway

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in gdm (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Incomplete → New
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Max Bowsher (maxb) wrote :

Hmm. I was going to dispute that this is of "Low" importance, but given the classification rules on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Importance, that is correct. Still, it's a pretty major wart in many people's first experience of Karmic....

tags: added: regression-potential
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

there is no indication that many users are having that issue since there is no other bug about the issue

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Could it be some leftover gconf settings from previous buggy gdm versions? Can you please remove/move aside /var/lib/gdm/.gconf/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/%gconf.xml and see whether it still happens?

Changed in gdm (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Max Bowsher (maxb) wrote :

No luck I'm afraid. Deleting that file (even when making sure to do it whilst gdm is stopped) merely results in it being recreated with the same keymap settings when gdm next starts.

Brian Murray (brian-murray)
tags: added: regression-release
removed: regression-potential
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KLEIN Stéphane (stephane-harobed) wrote :

> there is no indication that many users are having that issue since there is no other bug about the issue

I've also this bug.

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eugeneKenny (elkenny) wrote :

I can confirm this as well; fresh install of Karmic on a new build, so it's not due to a misbehaving leftover conf file.

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Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen (ralf-nieuwenhuijsen) wrote :

Why is this incomplete now?

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Alpyre (alpers55) wrote :

I have the same bug. Fresh install with the latest Karmic 9.10 build fixes the issue temporarily. I'm not sure but I believe this issue occurs after I install Wine on Ubuntu.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for gdm (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in gdm (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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