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slapshot

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Registered: 2008-05-07

Posts: 6

Xorg error after last update

Hi all,

I did a mega update to refresh my distro on my aspire one. It was a big jump from 2.35.x kernel and now I have an error starting X:

[    22.383] (EE) Error compiling keymap (server-0)
[    22.383] (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap
[    22.383] XKB: Failed to compile keymap
[    22.383] Keyboard initialization failed. This could be a missing or incorrect setup of xkeyboard-config.
[    22.383] 
Fatal server error:
[    22.383] Failed to activate core devices.
 

Maybe I miss something for my rolling release. Some help ?

Thank you

krisoijn

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Registered: 2011-03-18

Posts: 15

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Re: Xorg error after last update

could be that you didnt have right write to /tmp folder/partition.

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Xorg error after last update

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=91547
Do you have any space left on the device?

slapshot

Member

Registered: 2008-05-07

Posts: 6

Re: Xorg error after last update

@karol: I still have 6 Gb so I don't think it could be such a space left problem.

@krisoijn: I will check it. It is assigned to root but will check all the mask.

Thanks both.

Antonio

DojoMortal

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Registered: 2010-04-24

Posts: 12

Re: Xorg error after last update

I had the exact same problem here. Apparently, it's caused by package xorg-xkb-utils. After downgrading it, everything went back to normal.

No space or rights problem on my system so far… Has someone an idea of the problem or should I just report a bug ?

martion

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Registered: 2011-04-21

Posts: 1

Re: Xorg error after last update

I just updated my  system and had similar issue.
problem was that file /usr/bin/xkbcomp missing.

this binary is in package xorg-xkbcomp and package was incorretly installed. after reinstall package it's work fine.

Bonzodog

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From: Leicester, UK

Registered: 2008-02-14

Posts: 106

Re: Xorg error after last update

This appears to be a bug in xorg-xkbcomp -- just reinstall this package. There also appear to be install problems with two font packages -- xorg-mkfontscale, and xorg-mkfontdir, both of which I had to re-install.