Bug#600490: Russian phonetic layout on a jp keyboard?

[Dima Pasechnik <dimpase@gmail.com>]

On 8 December 2010 14:18, Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> wrote:
> Dima Pasechnik, le Thu 02 Dec 2010 12:26:11 +0800, a écrit :
>> $ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd
>>  layouts = [jp        jp106]
>>  options = [terminate terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,grp     grp:ctrl_shift_toggle,grp       grp:alt_space_toggle,grp        grp:menu_toggle,grp     grp:sclk_toggle]
>>  model = toshiba_s3000
>>
>> Note jp106 string in gconftool-2.
>
> Indeed it looks suspicious.
>
>> I do not know where it comes from (do I still have an old config file
>> lying around?) and whether it is harmless.
>
> Well, in the gconf case, the config file is the gconf database, more
> precisely ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard. You can use the
> gconftool-2 command to change it.

I used the gconf-editor to erase jp106 substring from "layouts",
and this has cured the popup error messages.
This also disabled Russian keyboard, though.
gconftool-2 showed
layouts = [jp], as expected.

Then I added the keyboard I need via Gnome interface, and got it working.
gconftool-2 shows
layouts = [jp, ru      phonetic]
as it was needed.

I suppose this is resolved is some way, at least for me.
(probably the squeeze installer/updater needs to be more aggressive in cleaning
up unknown options...)

Thank you all for your time,
Dmitrii.

PS. I wish the experience of fixing this did not resemble editing
Windows registry that much :-)