Comment 2 for bug 7848

I have current everything (including version 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6ubuntu15 of the X
stuff), and I'm seeing this.

I created a new user to find out what the new default desktop settings are like,
and ran System Tools -> New Login to try it out. Upon logging in with the new
user, I got 11 windows with the "Error activating XKB configuration" message.

The debug details it asks for:

test@trogdor ~ $ xprop -root | grep XKB
_XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "xfree86", "pc104", "us", "hpi6", ""
_XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "xfree86", "pc104", "us", "hpi6", ""
test@trogdor ~ $ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb
 layouts = [us hpi6]
 model = pc104
 overrideSettings = false
 options = []
 update_handlers = []
test@trogdor ~ $

Logging in a second time to that user, I only get one error message, rather than
eleven. With a new user, I again get eleven copies of the error first time I login.

Logging in to that user via "New Login" *twice*, the second new login doesn't
get the error -- but then, it gets a different (partly broken) theme too,
something odd is happening there.

I can also reproduce this without "New Login", i.e. by logging out of all X
sessions and logging in as one of these test users to the normal gdm prompt.

The debug output for my usual user, that doesn't see the error, is a little
different:

andrew@trogdor ~ $ xprop -root | grep XKB
_XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "xfree86", "pc104", "us", "hpi6", ""
_XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "xfree86", "pc104", "us", "", ""
andrew@trogdor ~ $ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb
 layouts = [us]
 model = pc104
 overrideSettings = false
 options = []
 update_handlers = []
andrew@trogdor ~ $

This is on an i386 laptop, so I'm setting Hardware to "All".