Re: XFree86 packages mess, Xkb broken, how to clean up
On 6/9/05, Andrey Andreev <andreev@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Some time ago I did something dreadfully stupid on my Debian - I
> upgraded a repository, which was trully not meant for installing on a
> normal Debian:
>
> #maemo
> deb http://repository.maemo.org/ maemo ossw
> deb-src http://repository.maemo.org/ maemo ossw
>
> In case you have been wondering it's a repo with a lot of things to be
> run in a sandbox to provide environment and tools for developing apps
> for the new Nokia 770 Linux tablet. It is meant to be used inside the
> sandbox.
>
> Well, I put this in my desktop's /etc/apt/sources.list and dist-upgraded
> (quite a few packages got upgraded) and installed some packages on top
> of it. Next, I completely forgot what I have installed. Next, I figured
> what I have done, and removed the repo from my sources.list, but as
> everything seemed to be working OK, I decided to clean it up some other
> day.
>
> A month later, after some upgrades of X my xkb stopped working. I
> noticed that /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb does not exist, so I made a
> symlinked it to /etc/X11/xkb/. Now, to my surprise X would seem to start
> OK, but my keyboard did not work properly (I could do Ctrl-Alt-Bksp, or
> toggle NumLock, or even switch xkb groups with RWin, but I could not
> type any letters or numbers, nor could I do Ctrl-Alt-F1, etc.).
>
> Removing the link made the keyboard work properly, but I was obvoiously
> unable to switch keyboard layouts. In this situation XFree86.0.log was
> reporting that:
>
> Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
>
>
> I spent many hours trying to find packages that came from the maemo
> repository (is there any proper way to do it? If yes, please tell me),
> and downgrading every package I found to the one in Debian unstable
> (which is what I run). It did not fix the xkb issue. I diffed my
> /etc/X11/xkb/ to one on a working Sid and found no differences.
>
> Now, as
> dpkg -S /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
> tells me that the file I was missing belongs to the libx11-6 package,
> and when I hit the problem I was running a version of the package that
> came from maemo, I am fairly confident that upgrading from that repo is
> the reason why xkb stopped working.
>
> I have reinstalled many X-related packages with no success. I would not
> mind reinstalling the whole lot and more again, and even losing some
> configuration data, as my alternative at the moment seems to be a
> from-the-scratch install, and this sounds wrong (although it is so easy,
> I would prefer not to do it).
>
> So, all ideas are very welcome.
>
> Regards,
>
> Andro
>
>
>
> --
> Andrey Andreev
> University of Helsinki
> Dept. of Computer Science
>
>
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I think the best thing you should do is have a look with lynx at
xfree86.org (if X is not available), unistall everything regarding X
and reinstall them You could also download thelatest version of etheir
XFree86 org X.org and install it...
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