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Bug#251387: xbase-clients: setxkbmap says Error loading new keyboard description after upgrade no matter what arguments



severity 251387 important
tags 251387 sid pending
merge 251387 251119
thanks
On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 02:50:03PM +0200, Marius Mikucionis wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 14:06, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > reassign 251387 xlibs
> > merge 251387 251263
> > thanks

> whatever it means that's probably not for me?

Hello,
No, not really. You have submitted a duplicate bugreport (I can
understand how this happened it is not easy to know wich package a bug
belongs to.) and I merged nthem. #251263, is about the same issue.

> > On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 11:59:57AM +0200, Marius Mikucionis wrote:
[...]
> > > After dayly upgrade setxkbmap broke:
> > > it does not load any keyboard description.
> > > I use "setxkbmap us,lt -option grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll" to set 
> > > the keyboard layout - it gives error message. Even if I don't specify any 
> > > arguments it still gives the same error message.
 
> > 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
 
> OK, I did it. Now it seems to work.
[...]

Thanks for the quick response. Now I can merge this bug with the other
five about the numlock issue. ;-)
                cu andreas



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