GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 340011
Keyboard layout options result in error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon.
Last modified: 2006-06-27 21:34:04 UTC
Steps to reproduce: 1. Selecting "compose key position" or "miscellaneous compatibility options" in the tab "Layout Options" in the keyboard preferences. 2. A selection results in the changing of all the window layouts several times. (something is restarting) 3. Finally a error pops up with the text: --------------- Error Message ---------------------------- There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon. Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work correctly. The Settings Daemon restarted too many times. The last error message was: Child process did not give an error message, unknown failure occurred GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in. --------------- END Error Message ---------------------------- Stack trace: nothing really crashed. The GNOME Settings Daemon doesn't restart. Other information: - I changed my keyboard layout to "us-international". - Logging out and logging in again results in another error: ---------------------------------------------------------------- The GNOME Session Manager (process 32081) has crashed due to a fatal error (Aborted). When you close this dialog, all applications will close and your session will exit. Please save all your files before closing this dialog. ---------------------------------------------------------------- - I am able to set the failing settings back after login. This requires me to logout and login again! - The problem is reproducible. Are there any other messages, such those in /var/log/gdm/* i should report? Thanks.
I think I have the same problem. I'm using a Swiss German keyboard with dead keys, which was somehow not set correctly by Fedora Core 5. I found on a forum (sorry, I've lost the link) the tip that X.Org has changed keyboard definitions. With my new keyboad settings the keyboard work as they should. The relevant lines in xorg.conf are: Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" # Option "XkbLayout" "ch" # Option "XkbVariant" "de_nodeadkeys" Option "XkbLayout" "ch" Option "XkbVariant" "de" When I reset my keyboard settings at least with system-administration-keyboard and system-preferences-keyboard this gnome settings error is gone, but also my keyboard settings. I use Gnome 2.14.2 Anything else I could report?
Since I upgraded from Ubuntu Breezy to Dapper 6.06, this is resolved. I think other distributions will probably follow (such as fedora 5) with updates and this goes away. But in the mean time, a check for the Xorg keyboard setting could be nice maybe. Therefore I changed the bug to a low priority.
It is actually NOTGNOME problem. I think it is broken XKB database (fixed in latest Dapper). So closing it...