On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 16:49:44 +0200, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > Package: xkb-data > Version: 1.8-1 > Severity: important > > After updating my desktop machine to squeeze my keyboard no longer works > (ok 3 keys on my keyboard among them "u" work). This happens even if I > start with an empty/no xorg.conf. > > Starting X manually I noticed this on stderr: > > The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: > > Error: Can't find file "en_us" for symbols include > > Exiting > > Abandoning symbols file "default" > Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server > (EE) Unable to open evdev device "/dev/input/event4". > (EE) PreInit returned NULL for "Microsoft Natural® Ergonomic Keyboard 4000" > > > So I did a strace and creating this symlink fixed it for me > > # cd /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols > # ln -s us en_us > > Is this a problem/misconfiguration on my side and intended or should > en_us be shipped indeed? > Sounds like a misconfiguration to me. What was in your xorg.conf before the upgrade? What's in /etc/default/keyboard now? Cheers, Julien
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