After emerging xorg-x11-6.8.0-r3, logging into Gnome gives Error activating XKB configuration. Probably internal X server problem. X server version data: Gentoo Linux (The X.Org Foundation 6.8.0, revision r3-0.2.2.1) 60800000 If you report this situation as a bug, please include: - The result of xprop -root | grep XKB - The result of gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb jrh $ xprop -root | grep XKB _XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "xorg", "pc101", "us", "", "" _XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "xorg", "pc101", "us", "", "" jrh $ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb layouts = [us] model = pc101 overrideSettings = false options = [compose compose:ralt] update_handlers = [] This did not happen with earlier Xorg ebuilds. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
same problem here, but with xorg 6.7.0-r3. $ xprop -root | grep XKB _XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "xorg", "pc104", "us_intl", "", "" _XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "xorg", "pc104", "us_intl", "", "" $ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb layouts = [us_intl] model = pc104 overrideSettings = false options = [] update_handlers = []
Solved it! After a lot of messing around with -kb and other options, emerging and backing out Xorg versions etc, I noticed that the xkbcomp file in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb was 0 bytes. Replacing this with the binary from /usr/X11R6/bin solved the problem. I assume that the xorg-x11-6.8.0-r3 install left the 0 byte file there. It now "worksforme".
This is a duplicate.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 47243 ***
