Hi again,

(please read again the below mail, first)

Sorry to bring this up again, but it seems the latest upgrades (all of them, 
the system is completely up-to-date) brought the below-described issue back.

(Un)fortunately, I didn't remember I had posted on the maillist and searched 
the forums again, with a deja-vu feeling all over me. Found (again) the same 
topic describing that I have to export XKEYSYMDB env variable but this time 
I've added the export line to /etc/rc.d/kdm (which might not be enough, and a 
more proper way would be to add something to /etc/profile.d)

Now, my question is, am I the only one with the XKEYSYMDB issue?
Hasn't anyone else experienced this?

Lots of thanks,
Mircea

On Sunday 09 April 2006 13:31, Mircea Bardac wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I've kept playing yesterday with FreeNX (couldnt' have it working properly
> with a new KDE session - might be a completely different issue). I haven't
> touched X.org's config files except for removing the "-nolisten tcp" from
> KDM's configuration files.
>
> FreeNX kind of works, meaning that:
> * I start an NX session remotely
> * I get a blank screen on :1000 let's say
> * in a separate shell, I start a konosole with:
> konsole -display :1000 -e "startkde" which start KDE inside that screen -
> everything works afterwards
>
> Today, I've started the computer and noticed I couldn't switch from KDM to
> any console. Also, I couldn't type anything in KDM. Only the keypad works -
> strangely.
>
> Managed to get a console active by selecting with the mouse "switch to
> console" and searched the forums using lynx. Found a topic saying that
> somebody fixed not-working-keyboard by exporting
> XKEYSYMDB=/usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB (hope I got it right) before starting X.
>
> I managed to make KDM output its error log to a separate file (see
> attachment) and noticed that I got exactly the same errors as the forum
> poster.
>
> I'm writing this mail from a KDE session started by console login + export
> that variable + startx, which works. If I don't export the variable, I get
> X to work but no keyboard, exactly as it happens in KDM - fortunately, the
> mouse works so I can end the session.
>
> I wouldn't like to touch the files in /etc/profile.d to add this export
> there (don't even know if it would work) without asking if there's another
> way to fix this.

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Psi Windows Installer Maintainer/ArchLinux Package Maintainer
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