Created attachment 147081 [details]
Contents of the error popup

Reporter, is this still actual issue with the latest upgrades of a supported
distribution (Fedora 7, Fedora 8, or Rawhide)?

Hi,

We no longer support Fedora Core 6 and I am currently trying to get my open bug
count down to a more manageable state.  I'm going to close this bug as WONTFIX.
 If this issue is still a concern for you, would you mind trying to reproduce on
a supported version of Fedora and reopening?

(this is a mass message)

Created attachment 298977 [details]
Popup window: Error activating XKB configuration.

Popup window: Error activating XKB configuration.

The problem still persists in F8. See the attached jpeg.

This also happens when using Red Hat 5 as an X terminal accessing a Red Hat 4
system.  I have "1=Terminal -query redhat4" in the Red Hat 5
/etc/gdm/custom.conf file.

In that case, the dialog text is:

Error activating XKB configuration.
Probably internal X server problem.

X server version data:
The X.Org Foundation
70101000

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/xkb

And the requested info is:

$ xprop -root | grep XKB
_XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "us", "", ""
_XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "us", "", ""
$ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb
 layouts = [us]
 model = pc105
 overrideSettings = false
 options = []
 update_handlers = []

Fedora apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We're
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If you're currently running a version of Fedora Core between 1 and 6,
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Thanks for your help, and we apologize again that we haven't handled
these issues to this point.

The process we are following is outlined here:
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We will be following the process here:
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Changing version to F8 based on comment #5.

Created attachment 301850 [details]
Network trace of setxkbmap -v which fails

Perhaps this network trace will help.  It is a capture of "setxkbmap -v" which
fails with:

$ setxkbmap -v
Trying to build keymap using the following components:
keycodes:   xfree86+aliases(qwerty)
types:	    complete
compat:     complete
symbols:    pc/pc(pc105)+pc/us
geometry:   pc(pc105)
Error loading new keyboard description

It's strange that the text includes "xfree86" when both the server and client
are Xorg X servers...

Wireshark doesn't decode the XKEYBOARD protocol, so it's not clear why the
request failed, but it's interesting that the reply clearly doesn't follow the
standard X11 reply format with errorcode, error_sequencenumber, minor- or
major-opcode fields.

Here's some interesting information about remote X sessions and keyboard:
http://swik.net/xkeyboard-config/X+Window+Keyboard+and+around/...+libwhat%3F/2um4

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