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["mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In my case, I can reproduce it and I included the backtrace above
yesterday.  I have found the issue is because an external USB hard disk
(a western digital MyBook 1TB Mirror edition, although other WD MyBook
devices also seem to have the same problem) is announcing itself not
only as a hard disk but also as an input device, confusing xklavier and
then this crashes gnome-settings-daemon.

Jared -- do you have the same issue?  If you do "xinput list" do you see
any devices that are not really input devices in that list?

Sincerely,

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

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/805894

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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