Bug#347557: xlibs: [6.9 transition] XKB error upon GNOME startup
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 12:24:14AM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> ke, 2006-01-11 kello 23:17 +0100, Denis Barbier kirjoitti:
> > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 11:35:39PM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> > > Anyhow, even after purging the packages and force-removing /etc/X11/xkb,
> > > then re-installing the packages, adding secondary keymaps via GNOME's
> > > keyboard preferences again made the error message appear.
> >
> > Does it work for some layouts, or always fail?
>
> Actually, it's not just layouts. As a test, I tried selecting another
> keyboard geometry than pc-105 in the GNOME keyboard capplet. This also
> made the error dialogue appear. In fact, any setting I played with on
> that layout preferences tab made the error dialogue reappear.
Normally xbase-clients installs symlinks under /etc/X11/xkb, please
check that they are there:
/etc/X11/xkb/
compiled -> /var/lib/xkb
xkbcomp -> /usr/X11R6/bin/xkbcomp
Denis
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