Ofoo Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 06:47:04AM -0800, Serge Rey wrote: > hi, > > i'm running testing on a vaio z505r with X 4. this was all running > fine. my problem started after doing a new kernel (2.4.17) to try to > get a backpack cdrw working through the parallel port. installing the > new kernel is ok but i have the following error when a user runs > startx: > > Error loading keymap /var/tmp/server-0.xkm Couldn't load XKB keymap, > falling back to pre-XKB keymap > > root can startx just fine. i've hunted with google but can't seem to > find a solution for this one. > > any suggestions where to look?
i solved this one. turns out i had recently done a major apt-get upgrade and forgot to clean out the downloaded debs. they were occupying all the space so the tmp directory was squeezed and x couldn't create a few files there. cleaning out the debs solved the problem. -- Serge Rey http://typhoon.sdsu.edu/rey.html emacs "Powerful, but only for those who have more time than sense." Stewart Stremler
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