Bug 122181

Summary:	xorg-server fails on xkb/compile
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Florian Engelhardt <flo>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal	CC:	oanjao
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Florian Engelhardt 2006-02-08 14:58:55 UTC

Hello,

emerging xorg-server failes with an error message telling me, that it cannot write to /usr/share/X11/xkb/compiled wich seems to be a symlink pointing to nowhere.

If i delete this symlink and create a directory there, emerging xorg-server works

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-02-08 15:01:45 UTC

Reopen with output of 'equery b /usr/share/X11/xkb/compiled'

Comment 2 Craig Finch 2007-09-07 16:25:27 UTC

Please reopen, as this bug is still alive (on my x86 system) when I emerge xorg-server-1.2.0-r3.  Here is the information you need:

> Reopen with output of 'equery b /usr/share/X11/xkb/compiled'
[ Searching for file(s) /usr/share/X11/xkb/compiled in *... ]
x11-misc/xkeyboard-config-0.8 (/usr/share/X11/xkb/compiled -> /var/lib/xkb)
x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.2-r7 (/usr/share/X11/xkb/compiled)
x11-base/xorg-server-1.2.0-r3 (/usr/share/X11/xkb/compiled)

Since this is a symlink, I checked to see who owns the linked directory:
equery b /var/lib/xkb
[ Searching for file(s) /var/lib/xkb in *... ]
x11-apps/xkbcomp-1.0.2 (/var/lib/xkb)

Now, I have xkbcomp installed on my system, but /var/lib/xkb was never created.  The symlink in /usr/share/X11/xkb/compiled exists, but the target directory "xkb' is missing, leading to the error previously described.

The workaround is to manually create the directory /var/lib/xkb.