Andrey Andreev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Some time ago I did something dreadfully stupid on my Debian - I > upgraded a repository, which was trully not meant for installing on a > normal Debian: > > #maemo > deb http://repository.maemo.org/ maemo ossw > deb-src http://repository.maemo.org/ maemo ossw > > In case you have been wondering it's a repo with a lot of things to be > run in a sandbox to provide environment and tools for developing apps > for the new Nokia 770 Linux tablet. It is meant to be used inside the > sandbox. > > Well, I put this in my desktop's /etc/apt/sources.list and dist-upgraded > (quite a few packages got upgraded) and installed some packages on top > of it. Next, I completely forgot what I have installed. Next, I figured > what I have done, and removed the repo from my sources.list, but as > everything seemed to be working OK, I decided to clean it up some other day. > > A month later, after some upgrades of X my xkb stopped working. I > noticed that /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb does not exist, so I made a > symlinked it to /etc/X11/xkb/. Now, to my surprise X would seem to start > OK, but my keyboard did not work properly (I could do Ctrl-Alt-Bksp, or > toggle NumLock, or even switch xkb groups with RWin, but I could not > type any letters or numbers, nor could I do Ctrl-Alt-F1, etc.). > > Removing the link made the keyboard work properly, but I was obvoiously > unable to switch keyboard layouts. In this situation XFree86.0.log was > reporting that: > > Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap > > > I spent many hours trying to find packages that came from the maemo > repository (is there any proper way to do it? If yes, please tell me), > and downgrading every package I found to the one in Debian unstable > (which is what I run). It did not fix the xkb issue. I diffed my > /etc/X11/xkb/ to one on a working Sid and found no differences. > > Now, as > dpkg -S /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb > tells me that the file I was missing belongs to the libx11-6 package, > and when I hit the problem I was running a version of the package that > came from maemo, I am fairly confident that upgrading from that repo is > the reason why xkb stopped working. > > I have reinstalled many X-related packages with no success. I would not > mind reinstalling the whole lot and more again, and even losing some > configuration data, as my alternative at the moment seems to be a > from-the-scratch install, and this sounds wrong (although it is so easy, > I would prefer not to do it). > > So, all ideas are very welcome. > > Regards, > > Andro
I also lost my xbd files. The problem is that the xfree86 package (xlibs to be exact) contains the files, but, for some unknown reason, fails to actually install them (I am not sure if the very latest rev fixed this). It does make a directory tree /etc/X11/xkb... but many of the files in it are missing. Download the .deb (apt-get will fetch it for you and then find it in /var/cache/apt/archives). Then unpack it manually using dpkg. Copy the relevant file tree to /etc/X11/xkb. Hope this helps. -- Johan KULLSTAM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
