Hi,

On my latest build of Xorg-7.6, the server refuses to startup
issuing the following error:

(EE) Couldn't open compiled keymap /tmp/server-0.xkm
XKB: Failed to compile keymap

That immediately struck me as odd as the following option is
passed to Xorg-Server's configure command:

--with-xkb-output=/var/lib/xkb

It turns out that if you want to start X as non-root, then
permissions on /var/lib/xkb need to be such that a non-root
user can write to it.  Changing perms to 0777 were enough to
get the following error instead:

(EE) Couldn't open compiled keymap /var/lib/xkb/server-0.xkm
XKB: Failed to compile keymap

Not much of an improvement, but at least it's pointing at the
correct directory now.

So, any ideas how to fix this?  I've recompiled xkeyboard-config,
checking that xkbcomp is in /usr/bin, etc. all of which is
mentioned at 
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg09029.html.

Other google hits suggest disk space could be a culprit, but I've
got plenty left here.

Thanks for any help!

Matt.

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