Comment 13 for bug 67188

same here, I'm getting the same issue at my end.

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
10300000

If you report this situation as a bug, please include:
- The result of xprop -root | grep XKB
- The result of gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd

shirish@Mugglewille:~$ xprop -root | grep XKB
_XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "us", "", ""
_XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "us", "", ""

shirish@Mugglewille:~$ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd
 layouts = [us,in bolnagri]
 model =
 options = [grp grp:alts_toggle]
 overrideSettings = true

Now just to make sure that xkeyboard-config is present I just did :-

shirish@Mugglewille:~$ dpkg -l xkeyboard-config
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
un xkeyboard-conf <none> (no description available)

which shows that xkeyboard-conf is uninstalled

doing a search shows me this :-

shirish@Mugglewille:~$ aptitude search xkeyboard
p xkeyboard-config - Transitional package for xkb-data

then did a search for xkb-data

shirish@Mugglewille:~$ aptitude search xkb-data
i xkb-data - X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configuration d
p xkb-data-legacy - Classic XKB data

xkb-data is installed & it is 0.9-4ubuntu2 , so I hope the correct things are there. Any help would be appreciated.