Bug 122214 – xorg-server-1.0.1-r2 fails because /var/lib/xkb doesn't exist

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Florian Engelhardt 2006-02-09 00:15:03 UTC]

xorg-server-1.0.1-r2 failes and tells me, that it cannot write to
/usr/share/X11/xkb/compiled
compiled is a symlink pointing to a direcotry / file that does not exist.
I will do a third try on switching to xorg 7.0 this night (21:00 MEZ) and than i can tell you exactly to where it links.

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-02-09 00:22:41 UTC]

Please, post the output of 'equery b /usr/share/X11/xkb/compiled'

[Comment 2 Felix Riemann 2006-02-09 09:49:51 UTC]

having the same problem

$ equery b /usr/share/X11/xkb/compiled
[ Searching for file(s) /usr/share/X11/xkb/compiled in *...]
x11-misc/xkeyboard-config-0.7 (/usr/share/X11/xkb/compiled -> /var/lib/xkb)

/var/lib/xkb does not exist
creating it fixes it

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-02-09 09:57:44 UTC]

Thanks, reopening.

[Comment 4 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2006-02-09 13:01:42 UTC]

OK, looks like xkeyboard-config needs to create /var/lib/xkb since it installs a symlink to it.

[Comment 5 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-02-10 12:40:28 UTC]

*** Bug 122408 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 6 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2006-02-12 18:52:12 UTC]

Fixed in xkeyboard-config-0.7-r1, thanks.

[Comment 7 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-08-09 05:53:48 UTC]

*** Bug 143335 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 8 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-10-06 00:22:48 UTC]

*** Bug 150230 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***