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gnome-settings-daemon package

gdm doesn't set the correct keyboard layout in the session

Bug #445846 reported by Matt Zimmerman
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GNOME Settings Daemon
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gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gdm

My symptoms are the same as in bug 421212, but as requested there, I am filing a new bug, as that one is believed to be fixed.

I'm running gdm 2.28.0-0ubuntu14. I tried removing /var/lib/gdm/.gconf/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/%gconf.xml and restarting, and the problem remains. I will attach the old and new %gconf.xml for reference.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 7 23:07:35 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: gdm 2.28.0-0ubuntu14
ProcEnviron:
 LC_COLLATE=C
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
SourcePackage: gdm
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:6488): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:6488): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:6547): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:6569): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :
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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :
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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :
tags: added: regression-potential
Martin Pitt (pitti)
summary: - gdm still doesn't set the correct keyboard layout in the session
+ gdm doesn't set the correct keyboard layout in the session for us-dvorak
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

I tried to replicate this here. If I configure /etc/default/console-setup for us dvorak, then gdm correctly displays "US (Dvorak)" as default layout type, and $GDM_KEYBOARD_LAYOUT = "us dvorak" in the session, and I actually end up with Dvorak.

However, it _only_ does that if you don't have any other configured US layout in your gconf settings. This is because of gnome-settings-daemon trying to find a "closest match" amongst the already configured layouts before actually applying $GDM_KEYBOARD_LAYOUT. This is discussed in detail in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=585290, and so far it is not clear whether this is a bug or a feature.

To verify this, please check that

  gconftool -g /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd/layouts

has any "us" layout already. If you reset it with

  gconftool -u /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd/layouts

things should work for you again. Can you confirm that this is the problem for you?

summary: - gdm doesn't set the correct keyboard layout in the session for us-dvorak
+ gdm doesn't set the correct keyboard layout in the session
Changed in gdm (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

I will try the above. I should note that everything works fine in the greeter, and has for some time now in Karmic. It's just that the session ends up with the wrong layout.

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

atomicity:[~] gconftool -g /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd/layouts
[us]

I've run the gconftool -u command to reset it and will see what happens now.

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

Confirmed that it is working as expected after gconftool -u /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd/layouts

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

How did I end up with [us] in there? Is that a side effect of bug 421212?

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

> How did I end up with [us] in there? Is that a side effect of bug 421212?

Yes, it is. What happened was:

  * gdm previously misdetected the system layout, using "us" instead of "us dvorak"
  * gdm exported GDM_KEYBOARD_LAYOUT=us
  * g-s-d saw this, noticed that you didn't yet have gconfified layouts, and added "us" (since it wasn't present already)
  * after that, any GDM_KEYBOARD_LAYOUT="us .*" would be ignored, since you already have a gconfified us layout (that's the g-s-d logic I mentioned earlier)

It would have done the right thing if the original gdm bug 421212 wouldn't have happened.

affects: gdm (Ubuntu) → gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Incomplete → Triaged
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Bernhard (b.a.koenig) wrote :

OK, now I have

> gconftool -g /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd/layouts
[de nodeadkeys]

and the gdm screen showed "eliminate dead keys" yesterday but today I logged in and the variant got lost again.

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Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

This should be fixed in Ubuntu 9.10 now with the update to gnome-settings-daemon 2.28.1. Thanks for reporting.

Changed in gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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Changed in gnome-settings-daemon:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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