Hi, Some time ago I did something dreadfully stupid on my Debian - I upgraded a repository, which was trully not meant for installing on a normal Debian:
#maemo deb http://repository.maemo.org/ maemo ossw deb-src http://repository.maemo.org/ maemo ossw In case you have been wondering it's a repo with a lot of things to be run in a sandbox to provide environment and tools for developing apps for the new Nokia 770 Linux tablet. It is meant to be used inside the sandbox. Well, I put this in my desktop's /etc/apt/sources.list and dist-upgraded (quite a few packages got upgraded) and installed some packages on top of it. Next, I completely forgot what I have installed. Next, I figured what I have done, and removed the repo from my sources.list, but as everything seemed to be working OK, I decided to clean it up some other day. A month later, after some upgrades of X my xkb stopped working. I noticed that /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb does not exist, so I made a symlinked it to /etc/X11/xkb/. Now, to my surprise X would seem to start OK, but my keyboard did not work properly (I could do Ctrl-Alt-Bksp, or toggle NumLock, or even switch xkb groups with RWin, but I could not type any letters or numbers, nor could I do Ctrl-Alt-F1, etc.). Removing the link made the keyboard work properly, but I was obvoiously unable to switch keyboard layouts. In this situation XFree86.0.log was reporting that: Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap I spent many hours trying to find packages that came from the maemo repository (is there any proper way to do it? If yes, please tell me), and downgrading every package I found to the one in Debian unstable (which is what I run). It did not fix the xkb issue. I diffed my /etc/X11/xkb/ to one on a working Sid and found no differences. Now, as dpkg -S /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb tells me that the file I was missing belongs to the libx11-6 package, and when I hit the problem I was running a version of the package that came from maemo, I am fairly confident that upgrading from that repo is the reason why xkb stopped working. I have reinstalled many X-related packages with no success. I would not mind reinstalling the whole lot and more again, and even losing some configuration data, as my alternative at the moment seems to be a from-the-scratch install, and this sounds wrong (although it is so easy, I would prefer not to do it). So, all ideas are very welcome. Regards, Andro -- Andrey Andreev University of Helsinki Dept. of Computer Science -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
