Bug 670334

Description of problem:

At some moment during rawhide updates the following error started to show up in ~/.xsession-errors:

** (gnome-settings-daemon:3541): WARNING **: Could not activate the XKB configuration

This is nominally only a warning bug _every_ time I am starting a desktop session an alert with the following text shows up on a screen:

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Error activating XKB configuration.
There can be various reasons for that.

If you report this situation as a bug, include results of
 * xprop -root | grep XKB
 * gsettings get org.gnome.libgnomekbd.keyboard model
 * gsettings get org.gnome.libgnomekbd.keyboard layouts
 * gsettings get org.gnome.libgnomekbd.keyboard options
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The only option to deal with that is "Close" and that is about it.  Those 'gsettings get' this alert asks about return '' for "model", "@as []" for layouts and the same "@as []" for options.

Does not matter what I was trying to do with keyboard settings I could not get rid off of that alert which seems now like a permanent fixture.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-settings-daemon-2.91.8-1.fc15

How reproducible:
always

Expected results:
No alerts which are lacking even vague hints how to deal with an "error" situation and some means to configure a keyboard.

Additional info:
Desktop is now for quite a while either mostly broken or at least partially broken so I was not in a hurry reporting this problem in a hope that it will go away when things will get somewhat saner.  Right now the situation is that gnome-session starts error reporting with:

gnome-session[3475]: WARNING: Unable to find provider 'gnome-shell' of required component 'windowmanager'
gnome-session[3475]: WARNING: Unable to find provider 'gnome-shell' of required component 'panel'

and after that there are no icons, menus, window-frames or anything beyond a desktop background (unless started by some other means) so I cannot check what kind of "Preferences" are provided.  Only the last time I have seen something like that there was no apparent way to set/adjust a keyboard layout options and this is a major BOO-BOO unless there are some other ways to deal with such settings of which I am not aware of.  In particular "Ctrl" key in the lower left  keyboard corner is for me absolutely unacceptable.