Bug 289321 – sys-apps/kbd-1.15.1 getting "KDSKBENT invalid argument" at boot

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description James Erickson 2009-10-16 14:08:18 UTC]

getting "KDSKBENT invalid argument failed to bind key 6 to value 61604" and "failed to bind key 46 to value 61602". i am using "us" keymap and utf-8. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.boot
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
gives KDSKBENT invalid argument messages

Expected Results:  
set keymap successfully

Portage 2.2_rc46 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.1, glibc-2.10.1-r0, 2.6.31-gentoo-r3 x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r3-x86_64-Intel-R-_Xeon-R-_CPU_E5450_@_3.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:00:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p33
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.6.3, 3.1.1-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4-r3
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1
sys-apps/openrc:     0.5.1-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.10.2, 1.11
sys-devel/binutils:  2.19.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6a
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/ "
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
MAKEOPTS="-j9"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/dev/shm"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 acl alsa amd64 berkdb bzip2 cairo cli cracklib crypt cups dbus directfb dri dvdr emacs encode esd fbcon ffmpeg flac fontconfig fortran gd gdbm gif glitz gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv imap ipv6 isdnlog jpeg jpeg2k lame mad mmx modules mp3 mpeg mpeg2 mplayer mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre perl png pppd python readline reflection sdl session smtp spl sse sse2 ssl sysfs tcl tcpd theora tiff tk unicode usb v4l v4l2 vorbis xorg xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="virtuoso" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" 
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2009-10-16 15:43:30 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 289265 ***