Without x11-misc/xkeyboard-config the following happens when trying to start tigervnc server: $ vncserver Could not start Xvnc. _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6 _XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/deepthought:1 _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6 Xvnc TigerVNC 1.0.90 - built Jun 9 2010 22:05:00 Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd. Copyright (C) 2000-2006 Constantin Kaplinsky Copyright (C) 2004-2009 Peter Astrand for Cendio AB See http://www.tigervnc.org for information on TigerVNC. Underlying X server release 10801000, The X.Org Foundation Wed Jun 9 22:40:28 2010 vncext: VNC extension running! vncext: Listening for VNC connections on all interface(s), port 5901 vncext: created VNC server for screen 0 (EE) XKB: Couldn't open rules file /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base XKB: Failed to compile keymap Keyboard initialization failed. This could be a missing or incorrect setup of xkeyboard-config. Fatal server error: Failed to activate core devices.
Fixed, thanks
