Since a recent, bigger "emerge -uDN world" I have a problem with setxkbmap: # setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout de Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property Use defaults: rules - 'xorg' model - 'pc101' layout - 'us' Error loading new keyboard description Unfortunately I can not say which of the many updated packages caused this bug. I remember that the emerge stopped in the middle with a message I should remove /usr/lib/X11/xkb. I did that and continued. Now setxkbmap is broken :( # emerge --info Portage 2.1.2_pre3-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.18 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:50:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r6 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -msse3 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/NX/etc /usr/NX/home /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/www/localhost" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -msse3 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.gg3.net/ ftp://ftp.linux.ee/pub/gentoo/distfiles/ http://mirror.phy.olemiss.edu/mirror/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="de_DE.utf8" LC_ALL="de_DE.utf8" LINGUAS="de nds" 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" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/gentoo-de /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa apache apache2 arts asf audiofile authfile berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr cgi cjk cli cracklib crypt cscope ctype cups dbus dlloader doc dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread elibc_glibc emboss encode esd exif expat fam fastbuild ffmpeg firefox flac fontconfig force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gimp gphoto2 gpm gs gstreamer gtk hal hash httpd iconv idn ieee1394 imagemagick imap input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse isdnlog java javascript jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal kernel_linux lcms ldap libcaca libg++ linguas_de linguas_nds lirc lirc_devices_com1 live lm_sensors logrotate lzo mad maildir matroska memlimit mikmod mjpeg mmx mmxext mozilla mp3 mpeg musepack mysql mysqli ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ofx ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdf pdo perl php png posix ppds pppd python pyzor qt3 qt4 quicktime razor readline real reflection rtc samba scanner sdl session simplexml smp sndfile snmp soap sockets speex spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl stream subversion syslog tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU userlocales utf8 v4l v4l2 vcd vdr vhosts video_cards_fbdev video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga vorbis win32codecs xanim xine xml xml2 xmlreader xmlwriter xmms xorg xprint xsl xv xvid zeroconf zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Are you using evdev? Reopen with relevant part of xorg.conf, can't guess.
# grep -v ^# /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep -v ^\s*$ Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" SubSection "extmod" Option "omit xfree86-dga" EndSubSection Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "glx" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" Option "blank time" "10" # 10 minutes Option "standby time" "20" Option "suspend time" "30" Option "off time" "60" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "keyboard" Option "AutoRepeat" "500 5" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "de" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "Auto" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Generic Monitor" HorizSync 30-64 # multisync VertRefresh 50-100 # multisync Option "dpms" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Nvidia" Driver "nvidia" #Driver "vesa" Option "NoLogo" "true" VideoRam 65536 EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen 1" Device "Nvidia" Monitor "Generic Monitor" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubsection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubsection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubsection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Main Layout" Screen "Screen 1" InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection
Some re-emerges of xkbdata or xkeyboard-config fixed my problem. So I can no longer reproduce this problem. Thanks.
OK, closing then. Thanks for reporting back.
Meanwhile I found out that this problem only occured in NX sessions. Here is the solution for this NX problem: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Talk:HOWTO_FreeNX_Server#Couldn.27t_interpret__XKB_RULES_NAMES_property Maybe the NX maintainer should get aware of this.
