gnome-settings-daemon - keybord layout glitch

[Mikhail Gavrilov]

The keyboard layout jumps (seemingly randomly) from one layout to the other. Killing gnome-settings-daemon fixes it, but that's no solution. (found out because I killed it for another reason)

During the beta the problem was more serious - it was impossible to write as on every two or three letters the layout changed. Now that happens rarely, but every time I want to switch the layout I have to use the key combination at least twice.

Hard to reproduce - it seems random.

Binary package hint: gnome-settings-daemon

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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gnome-settings-daemon 2.32.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.34-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 14 00:58:00 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101006.2)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=ru_RU.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

 * Is this reproducible?
 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Krastanov (krastanov-stefan)]

I'm not sure if the submitter reported the same bug, but there was no description, just a name. So it seemed better not to file another bug.

[gmcd (gmcd)]

Hello, my system is also affected by this bug.
If I've opened several windows, approx 10, the gnome-settings-daemon starts to consuming 100% of CPU and it has memory consumption about 32MB.
If I kill this process and then start it again manually, gnome-settings-daemon comes to normal consumption. However I have then problems with font settings, gtk settings and so on on some windows. For example Nautilus.

Also sometimes killing process causes freezing the X and even ctrl+alt+f1 or restarting X doesn't work. However the kernel and it's services is running, because I can hear music playing through VLC.

This bug is very annoying. I cannot work on my system, because it's unstable and I can lost my unsaved data anytime.

Please fix this bug, I'm seriously thinking about reinstalling back to clean Lucid.

Thanks, John

[gmcd (gmcd)]

I've upgraded gnome-settings-daemon to version 2.32.0-0ubuntu3 from Maverick proposed repositories:
http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/packages/show/252601
I'm testing it and give feedback.

[simply (simon-breve)]

I have 2.32.0-0ubuntu2 gnome-settings-daemon and I have the same strange behavior. I was able to trace the bug to the Keyboard applet for changing the Keyboard layout. Currently, out of 4 GB I have 2.7 GB occupied by the daemon. Here is how you can try to simulate it: Add several keyboard layouts, e.g., USA, FR, CH, DE, whatever. Start typing in an editor, e.g., open chromium then try to type something as a comment here in the text input field and you should monitor that if you type a character it is replaced by a character in another layout, not the one which is currently present in the keyboard layout applet. For me, this might be a memory leak in the keyboard applet. Cheers

[gmcd (gmcd)]

After about 3 hours of testing with version 2.32.0-0ubuntu3 the system was working nice with strange behaviour of this bug. However, when I unplug second monitor through Gnome monitor applet, the main laptop screen blanks and I wansn't able to turn on it on again.
I need 100% stable distro for my work with no data losing or bugs. So, I'm reinstalling back to LTS Lucid.

However, I believe, that this bug will be really soon fixed and it will make ubuntu a lot of better.
Thanks for your work developers, I'm looking forward to really stable Maverick like it is with Lucid.
Best regards
John

[Eloy Paris (peloy-chapus)]

I can confirm the memory leak described by simply in comment #6 -- I have two keyboard layouts configured and just switching between them (using left alt + caps lock in my case) one can see gnome-settings-daemon's memory consumption increase and never go down.

I could not find a better bug for this problem but since at least one user reported the memory leak in gnome-settings-daemon via this bug I thought this was the closest bug that describes the issue.

[Eloy Paris (peloy-chapus)]

Just killed gnome-settings-daemon -- its RSS was 1073912 kiloBytes, i.e. a gig of memory!, and after restarting it it is now down to a more reasonable 11524 kiloBytes.

There's something going on with the keyboard indicator, and it is my understanding, based on http://blogs.gnome.org/sudaltsov/2010/08/20/keyboard-indicator-in-ubuntu-10-10-disclaimer/ that this keyboard indicator is Ubuntu-specific, so if that is accurate a fix will not come from upstream Gnome.

[gmcd (gmcd)]

Hello, is this bug already fixed? I've just checked Ubuntu Maverick updates repositories and I've find out that proposed fixed version of gnome-settings-daemon 2.32.0-0ubuntu3 have moved from maverick-proposed to maverick-updates repository.
http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/packages/show/252985

I'd like to upgrade from ludic, but I've to be 100% sure, that this bug is fixed. Can someone told me, please? :)
Thanks for respond