Bugzilla Bug 194026

After I have upgraded to version 1.1 of xkeyboard-config-1.1 setxkbmap yields
following results:
 leonid@vyhuhol ~ $ setxkbmap -layout "us"
Error loading new keyboard description

Downgrading to 0.9 solves the problem.

leonid@vyhuhol ~ $ emerge --info
Portage 2.1.3.9 (default-linux/x86/2007.0, gcc-4.2.0, glibc-2.6.1-r0,
2.6.22-gentoo-r7 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.22-gentoo-r7 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:50:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p17-r1
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.5.1-r2
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.10-r5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.24
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.22-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe "
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf
/etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/
/etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo
/etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe "
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict
unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.tiscali.nl/
http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/mirrors/gentoo/
http://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/gentoo/ http://mirror.muntinternet.net/pub/gentoo/
http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
LINGUAS="en us en_GB ru he uk es"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages
--filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac aalib acpi aim alsa amd apache2 apm arts asf automount
bash-completion berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bittorrent bonobo branding bzip2 c++
cairo cap cdb cddb cdparanoia cdr cdrom cgi chardet chm chroot clamav clamd
clearpasswd cmucl cobalt cpudetection cracklib crypt cscope css ctype cups curl
cvs cvsgraph dbase dbus dbx dhcp dict directfb djvu dnd dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr
dvdread dvi eb enca encode escreen examples exif expat extensions extrafilters
fat fbcon fbdev fbsplash fep ffmpeg fftw firefox flac font-server fontconfig
foomaticdb fortran fpx freetext ftp fuse gcj gd gif gimp gimpprint glade glib
glibc-omitfp glut gmail gnokii gpgme gphoto2 gpm gprof gsnd gtk gtkhtml guile
hal haskell hfs high-ints hpn icc iconv icq id3 idea idn ieee1394 imagemagick
imap imlib immqt irc irda jabber java javamail javascript jfs jpeg jpeg2k junit
justify kde kdexdeltas kipi lame largeterminal latex lcd lcms leim libcaca
libwww lj logitech-mouse logrotate lzo mad maps mbox mcal midi mikmod mjpeg
mmap mmx mng mod_irc mod_muc mod_pubsub mod_python modelock modperl modplug
mono motif moznoxft mp2 mp3 mpeg mplayer mpm-prefork msn mule multiuser music
mysql mysqli nagios-dns nat nautilus ncurses netboot network new-login nls nntp
nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs ocaml offensive ogg opengl openssh openssl oscar
oss pam parse-clocks pcap pcre pdf perl php plotutils plugins pmu png pop posix
postfix ppds print procmail python qt-static qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime
quotas rar rdesktop readline real reiserfs rss rtc ruby samba sametime screen
sdl session sharedmem slang smime snmp soap sockets socks5 sound sounds spell
srt sse sse2 ssl stroke subversion svg swat symlink sysfs syslog sysvipc tcl
tcpd tetex theora threads tidy tiff tk tools transcode truetype type1 unicode
unzip ups urandom usb user-homedirs utempter utils v4l v4l2 vcd vim vim-pager
vim-syntax vim-with-x visualization vorbis web webdav win32codecs winbind wma
wmf wxwindows x86 xanim xface xfs xgetdefault xine xinetd xml xmlrpc xorg xpm
xprint xscreensaver xsl xslt xv xvid xvmc yahoo zlib" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1"
ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file
hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route
share shm softvol" CAMERAS="canon ptp2 directory" ELIBC="glibc"
INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse vmmouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad
cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en us
en_GB ru he uk es" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810 vesa fbdev vga v4l vmware"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS,
PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

Same problem here. It seems that 1.1 do not create compiled (to /var/lib/xkb)
symlink as 0.9 does, create it by hand fixed it for me.

(In reply to comment #2)
> Same problem here. It seems that 1.1 do not create compiled (to /var/lib/xkb)
> symlink as 0.9 does, create it by hand fixed it for me.
> 

Yes, works for me too.

*** Bug 194046 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Creating the symlink fixed my problems with xkeyboard-config-1.1 also. 
Function keys now work and switching caps-lock and ctrl also works.

(In reply to comment #5)
> Creating the symlink fixed my problems with xkeyboard-config-1.1 also. 
> Function keys now work and switching caps-lock and ctrl also works.
> 

Can someone add these two lines to xkeyboard-config-1.1.ebuild to the end of
src_install() and test it:

cd "${D}/usr/share/X11/xkb"
ln -s /var/lib/xkb compiled

If it fixes the problem, cool

(In reply to comment #6) 
> Can someone add these two lines to xkeyboard-config-1.1.ebuild to the end of
> src_install() and test it:
> 
> cd "${D}/usr/share/X11/xkb"
> ln -s /var/lib/xkb compiled
> 
> If it fixes the problem, cool
> 

It works fine, thanks

ping?

creating the symlink indeed fixes this problem. PLEASE rev-bump asap. thanks!

This looks like a duplicate of #193993

I think I've got a better fix, but it requires a revbump to xorg-server. The
XKB output directory needs to be changed to /var/lib/xkb.

*** Bug 193993 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Should be fixed in xorg-server-1.4-r2.

Hiya Donnie,

Will this be back ported for xorg-server-1.3.0.0 (for those of us still
lumbering under ati-drivers)?

xorg-server 1.3 is stable, xkeyboard-config 1.1 is ~arch ... you get what you
pay for. I don't think 1.3 had this particular configure option, although feel
free to investigate.

Fair enough.  A little grepping and a bit of test compiling later and it turns
out 1.3.0.0 does support this option, for anyone else wanting to roll their
own...  5:)

My issues were with compiz (bug 193957, Super seemed always to be depressed),
and everything seems a lot better.  After adding the xkb-output option and
explicitly selecting Super to be mapped to the Windows keys, it all works as
expected...  5:)

(In reply to comment #16)
> Fair enough.  A little grepping and a bit of test compiling later and it turns
> out 1.3.0.0 does support this option, for anyone else wanting to roll their
> own...  5:)

Based on your research, I'll reopen this for a 1.3 revbump, since a few other
things need to get in there too.

*** Bug 194454 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Fixed in xorg-server-1.3.0.0-r2, thanks!

The Bug 194454 had been marked as a dup of this, so I'd expect it to be fixed,
if this Bug is marked as resolved.

I have just been updating another system, though, and the same error reoccured.
Please note that my original bug report referred to xorg-server-1.4, so it may
be there's another location where it has to be fixed?!