From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50215) Description of problem: After graphical login a window with the following text is displayed: Error activating XKB configuration. Probably internal X server problem. This is happening both on local console and on login via XDMCP. LOCALLY: # xprop -root | grep XKB _XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "dk", "", "" _XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "dk", "", "" # gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb layouts = [] model = pc105 overrideSettings = false options = [] update_handlers = [] # XDCMP: # xprop -root | grep XKB # gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb layouts = [us] model = pc105 overrideSettings = false options = [] update_handlers = [] Version RHEL4 update 2 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.login via graphical interface 2. 3. Additional info:
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Unfortunately, GNOME's keyboard applet displays this message, and incorrectly blames the problem on a faulty X server. It turns out the majority of the problems are traced down to being bugs in libxklavier or the keyboard applet itself. I really wish the GNOME developers (or at least the Red hat package maintainer) would remove this erroneous error message. Reassigning to gnome-applets for diagnosis.
The problem persists in F11.
xprop -root | grep XKB _XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "evdev", "evdev", "us", "nodeadkeys", "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" _XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "evdev", "evdev", "us", "nodeadkeys", "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" ============================================================================ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd layouts = [] overrideSettings = false options = [] model = pc101
I got rid from the problem by re-changing my keyboard controls using System->preferences-keyboard to Germany-no-deadkeys.
Fixed by going to System -> Preferences -> Keyboard -> Layouts and selecting "Reset to Defaults" and changing settings again. Maybe changing "Keyboard model" to "Evdev-managed keyboard" would help, too.
Had the problem on an F10->F11 upgrade. "Reset to defaults" didn't fix it for me, but going to System -> Preferences -> Keyboard and adding the same layout ("United Kingdom") as I already had, and then deleting the original (now duplicate) in the list fixed it. My original (broken) output: $ xprop -root | grep XKB _XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "evdev", "evdev", "us", "", "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" _XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "evdev", "evdev", "gb", "", "" $ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd layouts = [uk] options = [] model = evdev After I fiddled with it and it worked: $ xprop -root | grep XKB _XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "evdev", "evdev", "us", "", "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" _XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "evdev", "evdev", "gb", "", "grp:shift_caps_toggle" $ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd layouts = [gb] options = [grp grp:shift_caps_toggle] model =
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