onboard crashes on launch

[Aaron Greenspan]

Hi,

On a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.0 that was subsequently updated to 9.1, I get this when running onboard from the command prompt. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong...

root@kiosk2:/etc/gdm/Init# onboard
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/onboard", line 15, in <module>
    ob = Onboard()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Onboard/OnboardGtk.py", line 62, in __init__
    self.load_layout(config.layout_filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Onboard/OnboardGtk.py", line 167, in load_layout
    self.keyboard = KeyboardSVG(filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Onboard/KeyboardSVG.py", line 34, in __init__
    self.load_layout(filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Onboard/KeyboardSVG.py", line 98, in load_layout
    langdoc = minidom.parse(f).documentElement
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xml/dom/minidom.py", line 1918, in parse
    return expatbuilder.parse(file)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 928, in parse
    result = builder.parseFile(file)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 207, in parseFile
    parser.Parse(buffer, 0)
xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 1

It looks like a bug but it may just be some kind of version conflict in some library somewhere. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Aaron

[Aaron Greenspan (aarong)]

Also potentially helpful... This is my system:

root@kiosk2:/etc/gdm/Init# uname -a
Linux kiosk2 2.6.31-19-generic #56-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 28 01:26:53 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

[Fabian Affolter (fab-fedoraproject)]

On Fedora with 0.94.0 this issue occurs too.

[marmuta (marmuta)]

It looks like it is trying to load an invalid layout file. Could you please run onboard with the -d switch like this:
onboard -d debug
and post the output here.

Also, perhaps try running onboard-settings from the command prompt and switch the layout to something else and back.