Bug#364932: Workaround Re: xorg: My keyboard no longer works after upgrading

[Noel Maddy <noel@zhtwn.com>]

On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 10:18:12PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 03:10:44PM -0400, Noel Maddy wrote:
> > Same situation for me here, but interestingly it's only one user's
> > account that has this problem. Unfortunately, it's the one account that
> > I really need to use X on.
> > 
> > I got it to work again by commenting out the -VMode/+VMode sections of
> > /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/pc (as below). Of course, this disables
> > resolution changes, but I never use that anyway...
> 
> XKB files have been moved into /usr/share/X11/xkb, so it is very strange
> that your workaround has any influence.  I can see only 2 reasons at the
> moment:
>   * Some of your X packages have not been upgraded to X.Org 7
>   * The XKBPATH environment variable is set to /etc/X11/xkb
> Can you please check?
> 
> Denis
> 

Thanks for the clues.

Found out I've still got xlibs 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 installed.

When I try to apt-get remove this, it also removes:
  gnome-applets gnome-control-center gnome-panel gnome-session
  gnome-terminal nautilus totem totem-gstreamer

When I reinstall these, it reinstalls xlibs.

gnome-control-center 1:2.12.3-2 depends on xlibs (unversioned)
 (bug #365977, perhaps?)

totem-gstreamer 1.2.1-4 depends on xlibs (>= 4.2.1-9)

xlibs (transitional?) 1:7.0.* is still in experimental

This may explain why the /etc/X11/xkb files are still in play?

I'll try installing the experimental xlibs and see what happens.

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Noel Maddy <noel@zhtwn.com>