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[Ricky Campbell <cyberdork33@xxxxxxxxx>]

It sounds like you turned numlock on which causes all kinds of problems.
Hitting F6 a couple of times should reset it back to normal. I believe
this is fixed in Intrepid Alpha 5, can you test it?

** Also affects: gnome-control-center
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: mactel-support
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Changing keyboard layout to Macintosh failed
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/261516
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Status in gnome-control-center: New
Status in Mactel Support: New
Status in “gnome-control-center” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
 affects ubuntu

In a fresh installation of Hardy, fully up-to-date, with no previous
~/.* files, I cannot change to the correct keyboard layout. This means
that I can't type a hash, which can be important when programming :)

This follows a problem I had a few days ago where I pressed a key on the
keypad and the keyboard layout went completely wrong. Most of the keys
didn't work at all, and some of the letter keys were recognised as
numbers. Changing the keyboard layout did not help, nor did rebooting. I
deleted all the ~/.gconf* and ~/.gnome directories, then logged in
again, and that worked.

While the keyboard layout was completely b0rked, I did manage to run the
commands suggested in the error message, and they came out as pasted at
the end. This is the same as the more recent but less eventful layout
failure.

I'm using a one of the newish Apple keyboards, the thin ones, connected
by USB.

The error message:

> Error activating XKB configuration.
> It can happen under various circumstances:
> - a bug in libxklavier library
> - a bug in X server (xkbcomp, xmodmap utilities)
> - X server with incompatible libxkbfile implementation
> 
> X server version data:
> The X.Org Foundation
> 10400090

$ xprop -root | grep XKB
_XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "gb", "mac", ""
_XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "gb", "mac", ""
$ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd
 layouts = []
 model = macintosh
 overrideSettings = true
 options = []