Bug#224061: xlibs: couldn't load xkb keymap , so failing back to pre-xkb keymap

[Olivier <olnet@free.fr>]

On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 16:44, Branden Robinson wrote:
> tag 224061 + moreinfo unreproducible
> thanks
> 
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 12:15:06PM +0100, Olivier wrote:
> > Package: xlibs
> > Version: 4.2.1-14
> > Severity: important
> > Tags: sid
> > 
> > Since my last update , i cannot use some keys (pipe, bracket, dot ..) ,
> > so i look at the XFree86.0.log
> > and i see this reported line 
> > 
> > Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
> > 
> > So i try to use setxkbkeymap and here the result of command line:
> > 
> > > setxkbmap -rules xfree86 -model pc104 -layout fr -v 10
> > Setting verbose level to 10
> > locale is C
> > Warning! Multiple definitions of rules file
> > Using command line, ignoring X server
> > Warning! Multiple definitions of keyboard model
> > Using command line, ignoring X server
> > Warning! Multiple definitions of keyboard layout
> > Using command line, ignoring X server
> > Applied rules from xfree86:
> > model:      pc104
> > layout:     fr
> > Trying to build keymap using the following
> > components:
> > keycodes:   xfree86
> > types:      complete
> > compat:     complete
> > symbols:    en_US(pc104)+fr
> > geometry:   pc(pc104)
> > Error loading new keyboard description
> 
> I am unable to reproduce this problem with the same version of the
> XFree86 packages.
> 
> Have you customized your /etc/X11/xkb directory in some way?  If you
> have not (to your knowledge), please reinstalling the xlibs package with
> the --force-confmiss and --force-confnew options passed to dpkg.
> 
> This should be possible with the following command:
> 
> apt-get --reinstall --option="DPkg::Options=--force-confmiss,--force-confnew" install xlibs
> 
> Don't most French keyboards have 105 keys, anyway, so shouldn't the
> pc105 model be used?--force-confmiss
no it's 104 ...


> ok i solve the problem with the following command line 
dpkg -i --force-confmiss.

thanks .