Re: xkbcomp errors; xterm won't run

1999-09-27 Thread pnet
At 3:47 PM -0700 9/27/99, Kevin Vajk wrote: > >Here's what I would do if I were you. I'd make a backup of /etc/fstab, >then edit /etc/fstab to change the pts entry so that it looks like: > none /dev/ptsdevpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 >And then reboot. Victory!!! Now rxvt and xterm

Re: xkbcomp errors; xterm won't run

1999-09-27 Thread pnet
Hi Nils, Thanks for your suggestions. >Wow, you didn't even try to use a virtual terminal? You know: this >Ctrl+Alt+[F1..F6] thing? Gee, I didn't know you could use that after starting X. I just tried it but it appeared to crash X. I got a terminal with the following error message: Eterm: Unab

Re: xkbcomp errors; xterm won't run

1999-09-25 Thread pnet
At 10:13 AM -0700 9/25/99, John Summerfield wrote: >> >"XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: >> >Error: Cannot open "compiled/server-0.xkm" to write keyboard description. >> >Exiting >> >Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap > >I have seen that message. It caused me no p

xkbcomp errors; xterm won't run

1999-09-24 Thread pnet
Dear friends, I have a problem that no X terminal will run. I have tried: xterm, rxvt, nxterm. These all quit immediately without any descriptive error messages. Gnome Terminal runs but it does nothing: does not accept any keyboard input and does not display a cursor. I am not having any problems