Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-settings-daemon
bugs:
- displaying dialog boxes that do not identify the program issuing them
- displaying multiple copies of the same dialog
- dialogs will not go away when you click close or the "x" icon. It isn't
just that there are other copies hiding underneath; if you move them they still
don't go away.
- dialog text will not cut and paste
- had to use kill -9 rather than kill to get rid of gnome-settings-daemon
This isn't about the error occurring, it is about badly mishandling the
dialogs.
circumstances involved replugging keyboard, a full disk, and dbus
failing due to full disk.
unplugged and reconnected keyboard and gnome-settings-daemon displayed a large
number of windows, which would not go away, with the following message (and
failing to identify as gnome-settings-daemon - I had to run xprop to identify
the program displaying window):
Error activating XKB configuration
It can happen under various circumstances
- a bug in libxklavier library
- a bug in X server (xkbcomp, xmod, xmodmap utilities)
- X server with incompatable libxkbfile implementation
X server version data:
The X.Org Foundation
11001000
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/kbd
Window was not cut and pastable
kill -i on gnome-settings-daemon, then restarted. Until restarted
screen/window appearance changed.
ubuntu-bug failed with dbus error message, started working after fixing disk
space.
Volume filesystem root has zero disk space remaining. Clicking examine
pulled up disk usage analyzer (slow) 845.2GB in /tmp. wireshark was
using 800+GB (for some reason failed to stop recording USB Video Class
data).
unplugging/replugging keyboard again didn't bring up the message again
so the lack of disk space was probably the cause.
xprop -root | grep XKB
CUT_BUFFER5(STRING) = (deleted)
CUT_BUFFER4(STRING) = "xprop -root | grep XKB"
CUT_BUFFER3(STRING) = "xprop -root | grep XKB"
CUT_BUFFER2(STRING) = "xprop -root | grep XKB"
CUT_BUFFER1(STRING) = "xprop -root | grep XKB"
CUT_BUFFER0(STRING) = "xprop -root | grep XKB"
_XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "evdev", "pc105", "us", "", ""
_XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "evdev", "pc105", "us", "", ""
gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd
options = [Compose key compose:lwin]
model =
layouts = []
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0518:0001 EzKEY Corp. USB to PS2 Adaptor v1.09
lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04
apt-cache policy gnome-settings-daemon
gnome-settings-daemon:
Installed: 2.32.1-0ubuntu13.1
Candidate: 2.32.1-0ubuntu13.1
Version table:
*** 2.32.1-0ubuntu13.1 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: gnome-settings-daemon 2.32.1-0ubuntu13.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 1e1a99f31ec2933306456e1f141c45d8
CheckboxSystem: edda5d4f616ca792bf437989cb597002
Date: Sat Jun 4 14:01:27 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug natty running-unity
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Title:
displays many xkb dialogs that won't go away
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