GnomeDesktop-WARNING **: Failed to load XKB rules file

[Jonas G. Drange]

Reproduce:
open System Settings -> Languages -> External Keyboard

What happens:
No available layouts are shown, an error appears in the log:

(process:11469): GnomeDesktop-WARNING **: Failed to load XKB rules file /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.xml: Failed to open file '/usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.xml': No such file or directory

What should happen:
ltinkl | it should be using XKB_CONFIG_ROOT
ltinkl | which we override inside our snappy env

See also: http://paste.ubuntu.com/23482865/

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Will Cooke (willcooke)]

Attached patch from paste

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[Bill Filler (bfiller)]

this is needed for external keyboard configuration support in unity8 snap session

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Reviewing the change is on my list, the patch doesn't look distro specific though ... Jonas did you open an upstream bug about the issue? If not that would be a good first step, if they review it then it makes things easier

[Jonas G. Drange (jonas-drange)]

> Jonas did you open an upstream bug about the issue?

Done: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775364

[Jonas G. Drange (jonas-drange)]

Progress, but failure is now [1]:

GnomeDesktop-WARNING **: Failed to load '/usr/share/xml/iso-codes/iso_*

[1] http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/23638191/

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

can we close or need to keep tracking?

[Jonas G. Drange (jonas-drange)]

would be great to have it upstream

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

you should add your new version of the patch upstream, also there was no uploaded to ubuntu so the status change seems buggy?