Description of problem: see summary Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kdebase-3.5.1-5 How reproducible: don't know Steps to Reproduce: 1. kxkb 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Created attachment 125463 [details] crash report
kxkb uses setxkbmap as backend to set the keyboard layout. The crash report shows the crash in setxkbmap but not in kxkb.
Try updating to the latest rawhide packages for your whole system, and update the report to indicate if the problem is still present.
These bugs might be related to the problem: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5970 http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20999
Patch from fdo#5970: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=4682
Fixed in setxkbmap 1.0.2 in rawhide, along with a few other bugs from what I can gather from the upstream report and cvs commits.