Bug#776398: impossible to add new keyboard layout

Tue Jan 27 17:11:57 UTC 2015

Package: gnome-control-center
Version: 1:3.14.2-2
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n

Hi,

When logging into GNOME Shell, the keyboard settings in /etc/default/keyboard
are ignored. I end-up with a default us layout. Note that the correct layout is
used when I log in a virtual terminal or in KDE for instance.

I tried using gnome-control-center to add a french layout. I tried several (not
only my preferred) with always the same result:

In "Region & Languages", "Input Sources" section, click "+". In the dialog that
pops up, navigate to a convenient layout and click "Add". The popup closes. In
the "Input Sources" field, nothing changes: the text is still "No input source
selected".

In addition, this course of operation leads to the file /etc/default/keyboard
being overwritten, with several lines lost. That is something I can't
understand, since this file belongs to root (I have checked) and nowhere was I
prompted for a su or sudo password.

If gnome-control-center was launched from a terminal, the following error
message appears when clicking the "Add" button:

(gnome-control-center:6899): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to
dconf:
GDBus.Error:org.gtk.GDBus.UnmappedGError.Quark._g_2dfile_2derror_2dquark.Code17:
Cannot open dconf database: invalid gvdb header

Kind regards, Thibaut.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gnome-control-center depends on:
ii  accountsservice            0.6.37-3+b1
ii  apg                        2.2.3.dfsg.1-2
ii  colord                     1.2.1-1+b2
ii  desktop-file-utils         0.22-1
ii  gnome-control-center-data  1:3.14.2-2
ii  gnome-desktop3-data        3.14.1-1
ii  gnome-icon-theme           3.12.0-1
ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic  3.12.0-1
ii  gnome-settings-daemon      3.14.2-2
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas  3.14.1-1
ii  libaccountsservice0        0.6.37-3+b1
ii  libatk1.0-0                2.14.0-1
ii  libc6                      2.19-13
ii  libcairo-gobject2          1.14.0-2.1
ii  libcairo2                  1.14.0-2.1
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0         0.30-2.1
ii  libcanberra0               0.30-2.1
ii  libcheese-gtk23            3.14.1-2
ii  libcheese7                 3.14.1-2
ii  libclutter-1.0-0           1.20.0-1
ii  libclutter-gtk-1.0-0       1.6.0-1
ii  libcolord-gtk1             0.1.25-1.1+b1
ii  libcolord2                 1.2.1-1+b2
ii  libcups2                   1.7.5-10
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2           0.102-1
ii  libfontconfig1             2.11.0-6.3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.31.1-2+b1
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]   10.3.2-1
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.42.1-1
ii  libgnome-bluetooth13       3.14.0-2
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-10      3.14.1-1
ii  libgoa-1.0-0b              3.14.2-1
ii  libgoa-backend-1.0-1       3.14.2-1
ii  libgrilo-0.2-1             0.2.11-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.14.5-1
ii  libgtop2-7                 2.28.5-2+b1
ii  libibus-1.0-5              1.5.9-1
ii  libkrb5-3                  1.12.1+dfsg-16
ii  libmm-glib0                1.4.0-1
ii  libnm-glib-vpn1            0.9.10.0-5
ii  libnm-glib4                0.9.10.0-5
ii  libnm-gtk0                 0.9.10.0-2
ii  libnm-util2                0.9.10.0-5
ii  libpango-1.0-0             1.36.8-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0        1.36.8-3
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0      0.105-8
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0    5.0-13
ii  libpulse0                  5.0-13
ii  libpwquality1              1.2.3-1
ii  libsmbclient               2:4.1.13+dfsg-2
ii  libsoup2.4-1               2.48.0-1
ii  libupower-glib3            0.99.1-3.1
ii  libwacom2                  0.8-1
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxi6                     2:1.7.4-1+b2
ii  libxml2                    2.9.1+dfsg1-4

Versions of packages gnome-control-center recommends:
ii  cracklib-runtime       2.9.2-1
ii  cups-pk-helper         0.2.5-2+b1
ii  gkbd-capplet           3.6.0-1
ii  gnome-online-accounts  3.14.2-1
ii  gnome-user-guide       3.14.1-1
ii  gnome-user-share       3.14.0-2
ii  iso-codes              3.57-1
ii  libnss-myhostname      0.3-9
ii  mesa-utils             8.2.0-1
ii  mousetweaks            3.12.0-1
ii  network-manager-gnome  0.9.10.0-2
ii  policykit-1-gnome      0.105-2
ii  realmd                 0.15.1-1+b2
ii  rygel                  0.24.2-1
ii  rygel-tracker          0.24.2-1

Versions of packages gnome-control-center suggests:
ii  gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio  1.4.4-2
ii  libcanberra-gtk-module   0.30-2.1
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-module  0.30-2.1
ii  x11-xserver-utils        7.7+3+b1

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