Bug#251263: xlibs: setxkbmap fails, "Error loading new keyboard description"

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@logic.univie.ac.at>]

On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 09:11:19PM +0300, Ville Vainio wrote:
> Package: xlibs
> Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-2
> Severity: normal

> After apt-get upgrade for sarge (including dfsg-1.2 X server stuff),
> keyboard layout stopped working for KDE. 
 
> Neither the command:

> setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout fi -variant basic
> or:
> setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout us
> or: 
> setxkbmap -model pc101 -layout us
> or:
> setxkbmap
 
> work. They all output "Error loading new keyboard description".
[...]

There is a high probability that this bug is caused by wrong patch in
4.3.0.dfsg.1-2 which also brock NumLock and CapsLock. - Can you please
verify this?

1) download http://people.debian.org/~ari/unfuck_numlock.diff to /tmp/
2) Become root.
3) cd / && patch -p0 < /tmp/unfuck_numlock.diff

See http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/05/msg00693.html for
details.
           hth, cu andreas