Comment 14 for bug 805894

Unfortunately yes, at least for me. In my case it definitely has to do with the fact that I have a USB hard disk reporting itself as a keyboard, this is confusing xklavier and causing gsd to crash. I run the command "xinput --set-prop "Western Digital My Book" "Device Enabled" 0" in my .xstartup and start gsd manually and this fixes it for me but I don’t think for other people. Gsd needs to handle errors better from xklavier apparently.

Sincerely,

Michael Russo, Systems Engineer
PaperSolve, Inc.
268 Watchogue Road
Staten Island, NY 10314

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-----Original Message-----
From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of Pedro Villavicencio
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 9:51 AM
To: Mike Russo
Subject: [Bug 805894] Re: gnome-settings-daemon crashed with signal 5 inxkl_process_error()

Is this still reproducible with g-s-d 3.2? There's no duplicates with that version . Thanks.

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Title:
  gnome-settings-daemon crashed with signal 5 in xkl_process_error()

Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Here's a note I included in a similar bug (797947) that may help to
  diagnose as this might be a timing issue:

  I'd like to add that I can never get gnome-settings-daemon to start
  and stay running for more than 5 seconds, UNLESS i take the following
  actions, in which case it applies the themes properly and responds to
  theme changes and generally works just fine:

  1. start 'strace gnome-settings-daemon' in a window
  2. wait until the terminal appears to hang in the middle of the output
  3. switch to a virtual console (ALT+F1) and login
  4. pkill -9 strace
  5. switch back to X - everything is fine!

  This works about 95% of the time.

  This is a laptop that always gets this error on boot up and only has
  one screen, no docking station, so its not anything related to screen
  size I should think.

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: gnome-settings-daemon 3.1.2-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0-2.3-generic 3.0.0-rc4
  Uname: Linux 3.0-2-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sun Jul 3 10:35:32 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100602.2)
  ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  Signal: 5
  SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon
  StacktraceTop:
   ?? () from /usr/lib/libgdk-3.so.0
   ?? () from /usr/lib/libgdk-3.so.0
   xkl_process_error () from /usr/lib/libxklavier.so.16
   _XError () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
   ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
  Title: gnome-settings-daemon crashed with signal 5 in xkl_process_error()
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-06-05 (29 days ago)
  UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout games libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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