Bug 39716 – keymaps loading fails at boot

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Arlo 2004-01-28 18:20:50 UTC]

I've specified dvorak in my /etc/rc.conf file.  Recently I get these errors at boot:
 * Loading key mappings...
input in flex scanner failed
 * Error loading key mappings

I tried re-emerging kbd and it didn't fix the problem.
I can use loadkeys to load the map fine:
 loadkeys /usr/share/keymaps/i386/dvorak/dvorak.map.gz 
Loading /usr/share/keymaps/i386/dvorak/dvorak.map.gz

I believe this may have occured recently with 2.6 or glibc; I'm not sure though.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot System
OR
2. Run keymaps init.d script


Actual Results:  
Loading of dvorak keymap fails.

Expected Results:  
Loaded the dvorak keymap for console use.

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2004-01-28 23:06:38 UTC]

you neglected to provide `emerge info`

also, what version of kbd do you have ?

[Comment 2 Arlo 2004-01-29 01:30:35 UTC]

Portage 2.0.49-r20 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.1-gentoo)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.1-gentoo i686 Pentium III (Coppermine)
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/                        
kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/plat                        
ex/config/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/X11,/etc/init.d,/usr/X11R6 /etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gen                        
too"                            
MAKEOPTS="-j2"                  
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"  
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"       
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"          
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""              
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aalib acpi alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups dga directfb emacs encode                         
esd foomaticdb gdbm ggi gif gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imlib java jpeg ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmo                        
d motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pda pdflib perl png python quicktim                        
e radeon readline samba sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex truetype x86 xml xml2 xmms xv zli                        
b"                              

sys-apps/kbd-1.08-r4

[Comment 3 Arlo 2004-01-29 12:21:12 UTC]

sys-apps/kbd-1.08-r5 solved this.

Thanks!