Re: Error activating XKB configuration
- From: "Johnny Rosenberg" <gurus.knugum@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 02:16:51 +0200
2008/5/30, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum@xxxxxxxxx>:
I solved the problem. I even WAS the problem…
I am not sure what I did, but the last three restarts resulted in the
following error message:
Error activating XKB configuration.
It can happen under various circumstances:
- a bug in libxklavier library
- a bug in X server (xkbcomp, xmodmap utilities)
- X server with incompatible libxkbfile implementation
X server version data:
The X.Org Foundation
10400090
If you report this situation as a bug, please include:
- The result of xprop -root | grep XKB
- The result of gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd
The result of the commands above is:
xprop -root | grep XKB
_XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "se-Johnny", "",
"lv3:ralt_switch"
_XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "se-Johnny", "",
"lv3:ralt_switch"
gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd
layouts = []
model =
options = [lv3 lv3:ralt_switch,altwin altwin:super_win]
overrideSettings = true
Yes, I have my own configuration which worked perfectly with 7.10 and which
worked perfectly with 8.04 until a few hours ago. I don't really know what
to do next. The last thong I did before this happened was to include the
following line in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base:
options snd-hda-intel position_fix=1 model=3stack
This is to make my sound card work, and it actually works; I have sound
now. However, I can't see how this could be related to the error message I
seem to get every time I login now. I don't only get that message, my
keyboard configuration doesn't work either. I can't even type Swedish
characters anymore.
Anyone? Any help will be very appreciated.
Johnny Rosenberg
As you already guessed, "se-Johnny" is my own keyboard layout. It makes it
possible for me to reach a lot of characters quickly using the AltGr key,
sometimes in combination with Shift. For example, AltGr+Right Arrow gives →
and I can easily access characters like ℗, ·, ×, ⩽, ⩾, ≤, ≥, ☺, ☹, ‰, ℃, ℉,
☒, ☐, ☠ and so on.
However, when I just created my own configuration file se-Johnny, I found
that I needed to make changes in it now and then, because it's hard to guess
which characters I will find "important" in the long run. Since I need to be
root to do this, I found it to be easier to place the file in my home
folder, /home/guraknugen, or rather a few folders below that one, in this
case /home/guraknugen/Kontor/Blandat/Tangentkonfiguration. To make it work,
I created a link to
/home/guraknugen/Kontor/Blandat/Tangentkonfiguration/se-Johnny in the folder
/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols.
A few days ago I thought that I would eliminate a minor problem. Some
applications put their own folders in /home/guraknugen, and I don't like
that they are in the same folder as my own folders. It just doesn't look
good, so I created a new folder, /home/guraknugen/Eget/. Eget means
something like "my own". It's almost like "My Documents" in Windows… Then I
moved all my other folders into that one. This means that the file
/home/guraknugen/Kontor/Blandat/Tangentkonfiguration/se-Johnny now doesn't
exist. It's now
/home/guraknugen/Eget/Kontor/Blandat/Tangentkonfiguration/se-Johnny instead.
This broke the link in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols, so the file se-Johnny was
never found. This was the reason for the error message this thread is all
about. All I had to do to fix it, was to remove that link and create a new
one, pointing to the right file.
No wonder no one else than I could solve it…
Johnny Rosenberg
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