Your message dated Fri, 22 Apr 2022 16:19:21 +0200 with message-id <YmK5afxMaa0KtohX@jcristau-z4> and subject line Re: Bug#648151: no keyboard at all due to bad /etc/default/keyboard has caused the Debian Bug report #648151, regarding no keyboard at all due to bad /etc/default/keyboard to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: x11-xkb-utils Version: 7.5+5 If I set /etc/default/keyboard to XKBMODEL="pc105" XKBLAYOUT="us" XKBVARIANT="nodeadkeys" XKBOPTIONS="terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" then the keyboard on X is dead. .xinitrc.log shows The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: > Error: No Symbols named "nodeadkeys" in the include file "us" > Exiting > Abandoning symbols file "default" It would be more wise to ignore the "nodeadkeys", or to fall back to pc101 layout. Without keyboard you cannot fix the problem. That is fatal. Regards Harri
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--- Begin Message ---On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 09:04:58AM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Package: x11-xkb-utils > Version: 7.5+5 > > If I set /etc/default/keyboard to > > XKBMODEL="pc105" > XKBLAYOUT="us" > XKBVARIANT="nodeadkeys" > XKBOPTIONS="terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" > > then the keyboard on X is dead. .xinitrc.log shows > > The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: > > Error: No Symbols named "nodeadkeys" in the include file "us" > > Exiting > > Abandoning symbols file "default" > > It would be more wise to ignore the "nodeadkeys", or to > fall back to pc101 layout. Without keyboard you cannot > fix the problem. That is fatal. > Closing as the issue was caused by invalid configuration, and was never an x11-xkb-utils bug. It's possible the fallback behaviour in the X server has been improved by now though? Cheers, Julien
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