Bug#337609: /usr/bin/gnome-keyboard-properties: french keyboard doesn't work anymore ?

[Xavier Bestel]

Le samedi 05 novembre 2005 à 11:37 +0100, Loic Minier a écrit :
>         Hi,
> 
> On Sat, Nov 05, 2005, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > I don't know if it's the right package to report this bug on. I'm
> > running X experimental. Since I have installed gnome 2.12 some letters
> > don't work anymore on the keyboard (the e-acute gives an accolade).
> > The gnome-keyboard-properties fails when trying to re-select the french
> > layout with:
> > ** (gnome-keyboard-properties:15969): CRITICAL **: XkbGetKeyboard failed to get keyboard from the server!
> ...
> > #4  0x556d5861 in XkbGetNames () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
> > #5  0x0805d1f3 in keyboard_drawing_set_keyboard ()
> 
>  Thanks.  I don't know if "gnome-keyboard-properties fails when trying
>  to re-select the french layout" matches the bug at
>  <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167234>, but it looks
>  awfully similar.  IMO, the X server should always respond to a
>  XkbGetKeyboard(), and the fact it isn't causes the crash to happen.  I
>  suppose your new X server is causing that, and I propose you try
>  downgrading the X server to unstable's version to check whether that
>  solves the problem.  If it does I'll reassign the issue to Xorg.

Should I try downgrading just the server, the client xkb libraries, or
both ?

	Xav