Bugzilla Bug 194454

After updating to xorg 1.4 support for german "Umlaut" characters and a few was
broken. setxkbmap failed with the message "Error loading new keyboard
description". After some searching I noticed that a directory and a symlink
were missing. Executing

kobayashi-maru ~ # mkdir /var/lib/xkb/compiled
kobayashi-maru ~ # ln -s /var/lib/xkb/compiled/ /usr/share/X11/xkb/compiled

fixed the problem




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Not sure whether the broken package really is x11-misc/xkeyboard-config-1.1,
but if it is:

1. emerge -Ca x11-misc/xkeyboard-config-1.1
2. unlink /usr/share/X11/xkb/compiled
3. emerge x11-misc/xkeyboard-config-1.1
4. setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout de,us -v

Actual Results:  
Warning! Multiple definitions of keyboard model
         Using command line, ignoring X server
Warning! Multiple definitions of keyboard layout
         Using command line, ignoring X server
Trying to build keymap using the following components:
keycodes:   xfree86+aliases(qwertz)
types:      complete
compat:     complete+ledscroll(group_lock)
symbols:    pc+de+us:2+group(toggle)
geometry:   pc(pc104)
Error loading new keyboard description


Expected Results:  
Warning! Multiple definitions of keyboard model
         Using command line, ignoring X server
Warning! Multiple definitions of keyboard layout
         Using command line, ignoring X server
Trying to build keymap using the following components:
keycodes:   xfree86+aliases(qwertz)
types:      complete
compat:     complete+ledscroll(group_lock)
symbols:    pc+de+us:2+group(toggle)
geometry:   pc(pc104)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 194026 ***