On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 03:33:36PM -0800, walt wrote: > Hi team. I'm trying to debug a recent commit to Linus's git repo > that causes startx to halt with a complaint that it can't write a > .xkm file to /var/lib/xkb. > > I'm assuming that the message is from xkbcomp, but I can't find > where in the startx process that xkbcomp is run, or what else might > produce such an error message. I'd like to reproduce the error by > running xkbcomp manually so I can track it down.
the xserver calls it via popen(3) in XkbDDXCompileKeymapByNames, , see xserver/xkb/ddxLoad.c Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com