Hi James, sorry that you have so much trouble with this. James wrote: > On 9 Feb 2008, at 10:58, Simon Schampijer wrote: >> Short term solution; >> >> - switch to a virtual console (alt+ctrl+F1 or alt+ctrl+F2) F1 is the >> mesh view key and F2 the friends view key >> - edit /home/olpc/.i18n >> - nano /home/olpc/.i18n >> - LANG="en_US.UTF-8" >> - ctrl+o for save and ctrl+x for quitting > > Hi Simon, > > Thanks for your rapid response. > > I got into the virtual console, logged in as root, and edited > /home/olpc/.i18n using nano, as you suggested. So far, so good. > > How should I have left the virtual console to return to the Sugar GUI?
sugar runs on the third virtual console. ctrl+alt+F3 (F3 is the home-key) > I exited from the root account, then rebooted the machine. It is now > most unhappy. The virtual console appears and seems to cycle through > the same process over and over. Eventually it settles down and displays > the following: > > > expected keysim, got KF86dbdBrightnessUp: line 72 of pc > xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): Cannot register with > ConsoleKit: org.freedesktop.CkConnector.Error: Unable to open session: > Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such > file or directory > Xlib: extension "XFree86-Misc" missing on display ":0.0". > the XKEYBOARD keymap compiler reports: > > Warning: Multiple names for keycode 211 > > Using <1211>, ignoring <AB11> > expected keysym, got KF86KbdLightOnOff; line 70 of pc > expected keysym, got KF86KbdBrightnessDown; line 71 of pc > expected keysym, got KF86KbdBrightnessUp; line 72 of pc > > Warning: Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levers, but <HALT> has 2 symbols > > Ignoring extra symbols > Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the Xserver > Traceback (most recent call last): > <Many lines which could be important snipped> > > Backtrace: > <Lines numbered from 0 to 7 snipped> > > Fatal server error > Caught signal 11: server aborting > > > Waiting for X server to shut down > > INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > > > What should I do now? > > I tried the steps you took on a ship.2 build (653). I think you run a similar build, or? - modified /home/olpc/.i18n and /etc/sysconfig/keyboard like here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ethiopian_Setup - change home/olpc/.i18n back to US and rebooted - this works - even if I put non-existant languages in i18n After the X-server tries to start in a loop it then waits for 5 minutes. This is the time you have to fix up things :). Switch to another virtual console. (ctrl+alt+F2) and check that the files you modified are right (i18n and the keyboard one). My keyboard one still contain the amharic info but does not break on that - maybe you have an even earlier build or some other corrupted file? Hope you get it back working, Simon _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
