Re: Solved: Setting keyboard preferences in Gnome (etch) makes system hang up and prevents loging in from GDM
Forget my previous e-mail.
Added the layouts and toggle key manualy to xorg.conf, it works now.
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 21:19:27 +0300
Andrius <a-andrius@takas.lt> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> After recent etch upgrade (27 April, Mark all upgrades -> Apply in
> Synaptic) I could not log in from GDM as a normal user, however could
> log in as root from GDM, and could log in as a normal user from
> console.
>
> The problem is related to keyboard layout.
> After I've deleted a normal user and created it again, I could log in
> again.
> But when I added Lithuanian keyboard layout using Desktop->Preferences
> ->Keyboard, the system hung up, the only way to get any response
> was turning the power of and on. And I could not log in from GDM as a
> normal user anymore.
>
> No need even to add a layout. After changing, for example, Group
> Shift/Lock behavior the session is terminated, and GDM login screen
> appears.
>
> I can repeat this behavior as many times as I (don't) want.
>
>
> Software:
> Debian Release: testing
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-8
> Gnome 2.14.0
> xserver-xorg 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6
> gnome-applets 2.12.3-1
>
> Would be glad to provide more info, but don't know where to look for
> it :-). It's a first time that I get such a problem in Debian, and
> it's a first time I cannot find a solution in Google, forums etc.
>
> Any idea (or pointer) how to fix this?
>
> Andrius
>
>
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