[solved] cant get x to start

ninjaprawn · 2011-12-18 17:32:48

Hi, my x server wont start.
I have just had a massive period with no internet access, and finally got round to running pacman -Syu on my machine after nearly 12 months with no updates.
Needless to say, it didnt like it. I am now stuck with a broken x, and having read through lots of different issues with similiar'ish problems I am very confused.

my machine is a 32bit processor (pentium4) with a nvidia geforce 6200 card and is fully up to date as of 18/12/2011.

System boots up to cli terminal with no errors, then startx command fails, errors being

sh: /usr/bin/xkbcomp: No such file or directory
(EE) Error compiling keymap (server-0)
(EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap
XKB: Failed to compile keymap
Keyboard initialization failed. This could be a missing or incorrect setup of xkeyboard-config.

Fatal server error:
Failed to activate core devices.

thinking it might be my 32bit machine?? as this seems to be a common issue? but the error complains about a missing file which I thought was handled by xorg.conf?????

help! and thanks in advance

Last edited by ninjaprawn (2011-12-18 17:43:30)

karol · 2011-12-18 17:41:36

/usr/bin/xkbcomp is provided by xorg-xkbcomp - do you have this pacakge installed? Do you have /usr/bin/xkbcomp file?

ninjaprawn · 2011-12-18 17:43:06

sorry found the solution https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=54015&p=2
For anyone who's recent updates may have caused similar issues, updating last night somehow removed my /usr/bin/xkbcomp file, reinstalling xorg-xkbcomp fixed this issue.

karol · 2011-12-18 17:48:36

It's not exactly a new thing: this package has been created as a standalone in March http://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/ … rg-xkbcomp

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[solved] cant get x to start

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