Recent linux kernel bug causing problem for xkbcomp
James Cloos
cloos at jhcloos.com
Tue Jan 24 18:44:34 PST 2012
>>>>> "w" == walt <w41ter at gmail.com> writes:
w> Hi team. I'm trying to debug a recent commit to Linus's git repo
w> that causes startx to halt with a complaint that it can't write a
w> .xkm file to /var/lib/xkb.
I saw that after an update to everything, but didn't have time to track
it down to a specific change.
I made that dir g+w and chgrp(1)ed it to video (seemed close enough),
to which each X11-using user already belonged. The server started
working again.
Chmod 1777 might also be a resonable choice.
-JimC
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