Bug#513297: x11-xkb-utils: When I use the setxkbmap command i get the following error: Error loading new keyboard description

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 18:42 -0500, Juan Pablo Romero Bernal wrote:
> When I use the setxkbmap command i get the following error: Error loading new keyboard description. Looking for into the log$
> X server and gdm daemon, it reports that the xkbcomp command is not found. In fact, this command is not listed under /usr/bi$
> although in the information of package, this command is provided. However, executing dpkg -L x11-xkb-utils, i get:
> 
> jpromerobx@obiwan:~$ dpkg -L x11-xkb-utils
> 
> /.
> /var
> /var/lib
> /var/lib/xkb
> /usr
> /usr/share
> /usr/share/doc
> /usr/share/doc/x11-xkb-utils
> /usr/share/doc/x11-xkb-utils/copyright
> /usr/share/doc/x11-xkb-utils/changelog.gz
> /usr/share/man
> /usr/share/man/man1
> /usr/share/man/man1/xkbcomp.1.gz
> /usr/share/man/man1/xkbevd.1.gz
> /usr/share/man/man1/setxkbmap.1.gz
> /usr/share/man/man1/xkbprint.1.gz
> /usr/bin
> /usr/bin/setxkbmap
> /usr/bin/xkbbell
> /usr/bin/xkbevd
> /usr/bin/xkbprint
> /usr/bin/xkbvleds
> /usr/bin/xkbwatch
> 
> The command is not present. To solve this bug in my Debian system, i've dowloaded the same package from repo, and adding the$
> file xkbcomp in /usr/bin

I don't understand how you managed to lose xkbcomp.  I just checked on
an archive mirror, and sure enough:
-rwxr-xr-x root/root    174112 2008-05-09 17:10:40 ./usr/bin/xkbcomp

It doesn't look like there's a bug here?

Cheers,
Julien