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It looks like the gnome-settings-daemon crashes. What keyboard layout do you use and which keyboard/mousedrivers do you use?

> It looks like the gnome-settings-daemon crashes.

Yes, I've understood this later.

I'm on windoze at work now, but IIRC I have these lines in my xorg.conf:
Option "XkbLayout" "us,ua,ru"
Option "XkbVariant" ",winkeys,winkeys"
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:ctrl_shift_toggle"

xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-input-mouse

Everything was OK in Gnome 2.14.3 (except that this Gnome applet doesn't have the option to show flags instead of text :-) ).

Gnome bug report tool complains about gdb not installed. If I install gdb will it produce some useful debug info for you?

ubuntu bug: https://launchpad.net/products/gnome-applets/+bug/59674
upstream bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=355074

There is one fix in control-center-2.16.2-1: "Fixed keyboard indicator segfault (Sergey UDaltsov) (351395)"
but it seems that this still not closes bug 355074 :(

uploaded gnome-applets 2.16.2 with a patch which checks for a NULL value, i am not sure if it fixes it for ya.But it is worth a shot

Keyboard applet works now, but it still crashes gnome-settings-daemon every time, which is clearly visible because GTK theme changes to Default.
In 50% of cases gnome-settings-daemon is quickly reloaded (theme changes back to Clearlooks in 1 sec.).
In other cases it's not reloaded and an error message popups with "Process /opt/gnome/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon exited with status 1" line among other text.
So, I suppose more fixes are needed.
BTW, the patch is not in CVS. Please fix this.

The keyboard indicator applet requires an updated xkeyboard-config to work for 100%. This package has been updated to 0.9, which is the latest. The update brings back the keyboard layout picture, which was missing with 0.6. Please try to reproduce this bug with xkeyboard-config 0.9, if it fixes your problem I can close this bug.

Sadly, the problem still exists. :(
All is the same as in my previous comment.
I did 5 or 6 tests and in 1 case gnome-settings-daemon was restarted by gnome (Clearlooks theme restored). In other tests it crashed (message box was shown and theme changed to Default).

So the problem seems to be not related to xkeyboard-config version.

Gnom-keyboard indicator applet starts bug buddy, if I, for instance, add ru phonetic layout. At the same time, however, Swe naming, which is default, changes to se and for a short time app goes into tk mode.

But on the other hand, by adding an extra layout the fonts will show correctly during shutdown. I don't know how I should explain it - but I can give an example.

1) If I only have one default layout in gnome - swe, swedish - and when I shut down the entire system, it will tell me approximately: Systemet stÀnger ned...

2) If I, however, enable Swedish and Russian phonetic layouts, desktop will switch to tk for a short while and Swe will become se and by clicking on se it will change layout to ru and cyrillic will work and by shutting down the system it will show not À for ä and will be able to shut down the system with correct Swedish spelling: Systemet stänger ned...

As for now I prefer having the systen show À instead of ä and no bug-buddy error message turning up on every login to X.

Hope this explanation will be understandable. I have this entry in rc.conf for keyboards:

LOCALE=sv_SE.UTF8
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
TIMEZONE=Europe/Stockholm
KEYMAP=sv-latin1
CONSOLEFONT=lat9w-16

Regards,

Linfan

fixed with libxklavier-3.1-1