gnome-control-center failed to load 'evdev' XKB layouts; xkbregistry error

[K1ngfish3r]

with relation to https://community.clearlinux.org/t/10480/

i@clr~ $ gnome-control-center 
xkbregistry: ERROR: Entity: line 26: parser error : Content error in the external subset
xkbregistry: ERROR: 
xkbregistry: ERROR: ^
xkbregistry: ERROR: Failed to load DTD
xkbregistry: ERROR: XML error: failed to validate document at /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.xml
xkbregistry: ERROR: Entity: line 26: parser error : Content error in the external subset
xkbregistry: ERROR: 
xkbregistry: ERROR: ^
xkbregistry: ERROR: Failed to load DTD
xkbregistry: ERROR: XML error: failed to validate document at /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.extras.xml
00:43:24.4451         GnomeDesktop[ 5700]: WARNING: Failed to load 'evdev' XKB layouts
xkbregistry: ERROR: Entity: line 26: parser error : Content error in the external subset
xkbregistry: ERROR: 
xkbregistry: ERROR: ^
xkbregistry: ERROR: Failed to load DTD
xkbregistry: ERROR: XML error: failed to validate document at /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.xml
xkbregistry: ERROR: Entity: line 26: parser error : Content error in the external subset
xkbregistry: ERROR: 
xkbregistry: ERROR: ^
xkbregistry: ERROR: Failed to load DTD
xkbregistry: ERROR: XML error: failed to validate document at /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.extras.xml
00:43:24.4485         GnomeDesktop[ 5700]: WARNING: Failed to load 'evdev' XKB layouts

finnish keyboard is definitely available in the locales list but doesnt appear under settings also pressing the "View Keyboard Layout" button is also broken

tried using swupd repair but no difference