Comment 59 for bug 625793

Rich, it's a bug in gnome-settings-daemon ubuntu package.

2010/10/2, Rich Wales <email address hidden>:
> If this bug report is "invalid" w/r/t the indicator application, please
> advise what needs to be done in order for the problem to be addressed.
> It would (IMO) by a very bad thing if this problem were to be neglected,
> and if Maverick were to be released without anything being done, on
> account of the issue getting stuck in the middle of a finger-pointing
> contest. I'm not criticizing the "invalid" status label as such — if
> the bug doesn't belong here, then it doesn't belong here, no matter how
> serious it is — but it's got to belong *somewhere*, and it sounds to me
> like it's an issue whose classification is not at all obvious to the
> users who are suffering from it.
>
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> Keyboard layout automatically changes + 100% CPU usage [updated]
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/625793
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> Status in Gnome Settings Daemon: New
> Status in Application Indicators: Invalid
> Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> == General description ==
>
> On some Ubuntu installs with two or more keyboard layouts (e.g. Russian and
> US English), after some time the keyboard layouts start switching in an
> endless loop and gnome-settings-daemon starts using more and more CPU until
> it reaches 100%.
>
> == Known information ==
>
> 1) Most people here confirm that this happens with non-GTK (Java or Qt)
> windows more often then with native GTK.
> 2) Possible fixes are killing and restarting gnome-settings-daemon or
> disabling the "Separate layout for each window" option in keyboard
> preferences window.
> 3) The second fix, however didn't work for some people.
> 4) The bug happens both on upgrade installs and clean installs of Ubuntu,
> confirmed with RC and Alpha 3.
> 5) The bug is specific to Ubuntu, not exisiting in Arch Linux and
> AgiliaLinux.
> 6) Having such a problem in a final release will make keyboard use very
> problematic for Russian users, so Ubuntu can lose many users.
> 7) The bug is still not fixed in GNOME 2.32, which again proves that it's an
> Ubuntu-specific issue.
> 8) For some users, the bug disappears after 2 to 15 minutes of use.
> 9) Confirmed for almost any key set for switching layouts (Shift+Alt,
> Shift+Ctrl, CapsLock, Alt, Ctrl)
> 10) Probably happens only with Cyrrilic layouts (Russian, Macedonian)
>
> == Debug ==
>
> APPORT DATA here:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/633167
> MORE LOGS:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-evdev/+bug/636619
>
> P.S. Do. Not. Touch. This. Please. There's more info here, which can make
> the devs remove the Incomplete status. Не трогайте это, пожалуйста. Здесь
> намного больше информации, чем во всех предыдущих описаниях, может снимут
> Incomplete.
>
> TO DEVELOPERS: Please, comment on what logs and other info you need to get
> this problem solved.
>
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