Bug#458692: Starts X regardless of whether keyboard is correctly setup

[Simon Huggins <huggie@earth.li>]

Package: xinit
Version: 1.0.7-1
Severity: normal

When running startx with a full /var I discovered ALT didn't work.  I
initially thought this was some higher level package like gtk or xfce that
was causing the problem but in fact it was X and specifically startx which
keeps going when xkbcomp fails.

I get a log like (copied by hand because /var was full):
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Error:   bad length in CompatMap
>          Output file "/var/tmp/server-0.xkm" removed
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server

If I make some space on /var then everything works again.

I would have thought it was preferable to stop X from starting in such
situations or at least to make the error more obvious.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages xinit depends on:
ii  cpp                           4:4.2.1-6  The GNU C preprocessor (cpp)
ii  libc6                         2.7-1      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.0.3-7  X11 client-side library
ii  x11-common                    1:7.3+6    X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc

xinit recommends no packages.

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