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FS#23632 - xorg-xkb-utils makes X crash when using non-US keyboard

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Jean-Luc PIPO (nsarko2) - Thursday, 07 April 2011, 18:57 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Friday, 08 April 2011, 23:19 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
Since xorg-xkb-utils has been updated to version 7.6-1, my system keeps crashing at startup. If I put only US keyboard on GDM Interfaces, that does not seem to happen.

The only way to avoid the crash is to downgrade package xorg-xkb-utils to version 7.5-2.

Additional info:
Apparently, I'm not the only one to report this problem : https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=904832

Steps to reproduce:
On GDM select a non-US keyboard for a specific user. Reboot. X crashes at startup indicating a failure in keyboard compilation. With the previous version, everything is just fine and smooth.
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Friday, 08 April 2011, 23:19 GMT
Reason for closing:  Works for me
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 07 April 2011, 22:15 GMT
Please attach logfiles. Probably you're missing a binary that was deleted by some weird bug in pacman that sometimes deletes files when they move between packages.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 07 April 2011, 22:18 GMT
Looking at your forum topic, either I'm right or you forced some dependencies, as it's impossible to downgrade xorg-xkb-utils without file conflicts if everything was right. Reinstall xorg-setxkbmap and you're done.
Comment by Jean-Luc PIPO (nsarko2) - Friday, 08 April 2011, 06:56 GMT
I reinstalled package xorg-setxkbmap as suggested and I cannot reinstall the old version of xorg-xkb-utils (so one problem at least confirm), but X still crashes at startup with this message :

[ 18.271] (EE) Error compiling keymap (server-0)
[ 18.271] (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap
[ 18.271] XKB: Failed to compile keymap
[ 18.271] Keyboard initialization failed. This could be a missing or incorrect setup of xkeyboard-config.
[ 18.271]
Fatal server error:
[ 18.271] Failed to activate core devices.


See attachements for full Xorg.log.
   Xorg.0.log (24 KiB)
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Friday, 08 April 2011, 07:46 GMT
xorg-xkbcomp is also missing on your system.

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