On 6/9/05, Andrey Andreev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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] > >
I think the best thing you should do is have a look with lynx at xfree86.org (if X is not available), unistall everything regarding X and reinstall them You could also download thelatest version of etheir XFree86 org X.org and install it...
