Keyboard broken

[Maarten Maathuis]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Ian Romanick <idr at freedesktop.org> wrote:
> Sometime since last Tuesday, the xserver is failing with the info below.
> I don't see a file evdev *anywhere* in the tree or in the
> distro's /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules.  I'm also specifying 'Option
> "XkbRules" "xorg"' in my xorg.conf.  What is this file?  Where does it
> come from?  And why is its nonexistence suddenly breaking the xserver?
>
> (EE) XKB: Couldn't open rules
> file /opt/xorg-master-x86_64/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev
> XKB: Failed to compile keymap
>
> Backtrace:
> 0: /opt/xorg-master-x86_64/bin/Xorg(xorg_backtrace+0x2d) [0x4aeb45]
> 1: /opt/xorg-master-x86_64/bin/Xorg(xf86SigHandler+0x8d) [0x5510e2]
> 2: /lib64/libc.so.6 [0x3ea1a322a0]
> 3: /opt/xorg-master-x86_64/bin/Xorg(QueryMinMaxKeyCodes+0x30) [0x4605dc]
> 4: /opt/xorg-master-x86_64/bin/Xorg [0x424252]
> 5: /opt/xorg-master-x86_64/bin/Xorg [0x423f8f]
> 6: /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfa) [0x3ea1a1e32a]
> 7: /opt/xorg-master-x86_64/bin/Xorg [0x423979]
>
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 11.  Server aborting
>
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The crash is something you should poke daniels about, the cause is
probably the removal of non-XKB mode. The evdev folder comes from
xkeyboard-config, as do all those files.