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Goophy

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Registered: 2005-09-21

Posts: 34

[Solved]Keymaps not working after full upgrade.

Booted the computer today and noticed it couldn't load any keymaps.

xorg:

(WW) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap

setxkbmap:

Applied rules from xorg:
model:      pc101
layout:     no
Trying to build keymap using the following components:
keycodes:   xfree86+aliases(qwerty)
types:      complete
compat:     complete
symbols:    pc+no
geometry:   pc(pc101)
Error loading new keyboard description

All the files are intact in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386.

Something broken or configuration changed in a package?

This is what I upgraded:

[04/17/07 21:14] upgraded alsa-lib (1.0.13-1 -> 1.0.14rc3-1)
[04/17/07 21:14] upgraded alsa-utils (1.0.13-1 -> 1.0.14rc2-1)
[04/17/07 21:14] upgraded cairo (1.4.2-1 -> 1.4.4-1)
[04/17/07 21:14] upgraded dgen-sdl (1.23-1 -> 1.23-22)
[04/17/07 21:14] upgraded dhcpcd (1.3.22pl4-4 -> 3.0.17-1)
[04/17/07 21:15] upgraded dvdrip (0.98.4-1 -> 0.98.6-1)
[04/17/07 21:15] upgraded esd (0.2.37-2 -> 0.2.37-3)
[04/17/07 21:15] upgraded glibmm (2.12.7-1 -> 2.12.8-1)
[04/17/07 21:15] upgraded gzip (1.3.9-1 -> 1.3.12-1)
[04/17/07 21:15] upgraded hibernate-script (1.94-4 -> 1.94-5)
[04/17/07 21:15] upgraded icon-naming-utils (0.8.2-1 -> 0.8.2-2)
[04/17/07 21:15] upgraded kernel26 (2.6.20.6-4 -> 2.6.20.7-1)
[04/17/07 21:15] upgraded minicom (2.1-3 -> 2.2-1)
[04/17/07 21:15] upgraded openssh (4.6p1-1 -> 4.6p1-3)
[04/17/07 21:15] upgraded perl-anyevent (1.02-1 -> 2.52-1)
[04/17/07 21:15] upgraded perl-event (1.06-1 -> 1.08-1)
[04/17/07 21:15] upgraded perl-event-execflow (0.62-1 -> 0.63-1)
[04/17/07 21:15] upgraded perl-gtk2-ex-formfactory (0.65-1 -> 0.65-2)
[04/17/07 21:15] upgraded shadow (4.0.18.1-3 -> 4.0.18.1-4)
[04/17/07 21:15] upgraded wine (0.9.34-1 -> 0.9.35-1)
[04/17/07 21:15] upgraded xine-lib (1.1.4-2 -> 1.1.5-2)

Thanks for any tips in advance!

Last edited by Goophy (2007-04-19 14:36:40)

mcover

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-01-25

Posts: 134

Re: [Solved]Keymaps not working after full upgrade.

[04/17/07 21:15] upgraded kernel26 (2.6.20.6-4 -> 2.6.20.7-1)

Just to rule out a problem with your mkinitcpio.conf, check if you have a 'keymap' entry in the HOOKS array. I'm not sure how much or if the entry 'keymap' affects xorg.

Someone knows about keymap in that context (xorg)?

Goophy

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Registered: 2005-09-21

Posts: 34

Re: [Solved]Keymaps not working after full upgrade.

That didn't make any difference, unfortunately.
Thanks anyway!

The keymaps doesn't work in console either by the way.

mcover

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-01-25

Posts: 134

Re: [Solved]Keymaps not working after full upgrade.

That didn't make any difference, unfortunately.
Thanks anyway!

The keymaps doesn't work in console either by the way.

So the 'keymap' entry wasn't there before? You added 'keymap', ran 'mkinitcpio -p kernel26', rebooted and it doesn't even work in console?! Thats very odd.

If you still have that kernel 2.6.20.6-4 in your pacman-cache try and downgrade and see if it works then. Because I think none of the mentioned packages could have caused such a problem except the kernel.

Goophy

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Registered: 2005-09-21

Posts: 34

Re: [Solved]Keymaps not working after full upgrade.

Very odd indeed. Never used the 'keymap'-entry in mkinitcpio on this box before.

Downgrading didn't work either.

Any other reasons why the keymap won't work?

Edit: Solved
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xor … ap_command

Apparently, one of the packages gave new permissions to /var/tmp/ (or I did something stupid).
Weird.

Last edited by Goophy (2007-04-19 14:36:24)