On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 05:50:49PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > I just started my machine and X a few minutes ago, after no obvious > X-related upgrades, and my keyboard is pretty broken, many keys and > combinations no longer work. Xorg.0.log says: > > ... > (EE) Error compiling keymap (server-0) > (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap
> % setxkbmap > Error loading new keyboard description Oh, ffs, I figured it out. The machine had no free space (for users) on the root partition, more exactly the partition holding /var/tmp, and yet these XKB tools didn't seem to think that the inability to write files was a useful thing to report. Let's go with the generic error message instead, yay. >:< It's easy to reproduce, for example: % sudo chattr +i /var/tmp/ % setxkbmap Error loading new keyboard description % sudo chattr -i /var/tmp/ % setxkbmap % -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org