From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040422 Description of problem: Error activating XKB configuration. Probably internal X server problem. X server version data: The X.Org Foundation 60700000 If you report this situation as a bug, please include: - The result of xprop -root | grep XKB - The result of gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb [msross@viccfedora msross]$ xprop -root | grep XKB _XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "xfree86", "pc105", "us", "", "" _XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "xfree86", "pc105", "us", "", "" [msross@viccfedora msross]$ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb layouts = [us] model = pc105 overrideSettings = false options = [] [msross@viccfedora msross]$ Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Every time I login 2. 3. Additional info:
The same thing happened to me I mailed to sergey_udaltsov I mailed the following infos: user@mymachine user]$ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb layouts = [de nodeadkeys] model = pc105 overrideSettings = false options = [] [user@mymachine user]$ xprop -root | grep XKB _XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "xfree86", "pc105", "de", "nodeadkeys", "" _XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "xfree86", "pc105", "de", "nodeadkeys", "" [user@mymachine user]$ layouts = [de nodeadkeys] model = pc105 overrideSettings = false options = [] Error activating XKB configuration. Probably internal X server problem. X server version data: The X.Org Foundation 60700000 1386 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/gdm-binary -nodaemon 1419 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/gdm-binary -nodaemon 1420 ? S 2:04 /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -audit 0 -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7 2725 pts/1 R 0:00 grep gdm ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/rules >>-r--r--r-- 1 root root 110 Apr 15 22:56 README >>> > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3096 Apr 15 22:56 sgi >>> > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 2525 Apr 15 22:56 sgi.lst >>> > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1662 Apr 15 22:56 sun >>> > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1748 Apr 15 22:56 sun.lst >>> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Apr 21 16:49 xfree86 -> xorg >>> > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 6537 Apr 15 22:56 xorg >>> > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1443 Apr 15 22:56 xorg-it.lst >>> > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 8837 Apr 15 22:56 xorg.lst >>> > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 331727 Apr 15 22:56 xorg.xml and : >>su -c 'setxkbmap -rules "xfree86" -model "pc105" -layout >>> > "de(nodeadkeys)" -option ' >>> > Password: >>> > Couldn't find rules file (xfree86) And he gave me the reason: >>su -c 'setxkbmap -rules "xfree86" -model "pc105" -layout >>> > "de(nodeadkeys)" -option ' >>> > Password: >>> > Couldn't find rules file (xfree86) "_This_ is a problem! Please file the report in the redhat bugzilla (and send the ID to me - I'd like to participate). In the report, please give all the details you provided to me (xprop, gconf, ls, setxkbmap)." As a workaround, please check your XF86Config and replace XkbRules from xfree86 to xorg (and create the symlink from xorg.xml to xfree86.xml). Probably it will help gnome to start without errors. I am going to try it...
It seems the symlink xfree86->xorg (in the rules directory) does not work. Probably the absolute symlink (with the full path) would be better...
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 120858 ***
I also got the xserver error message dialog all the time. The system was FC1 before up to FC2, the system working w/o xserver error message in FC1. I notice that when update from FC1 to FC2 from update mode the xserver error message always come. The message is not generated when upgrade from FC1 to FC2 via installation mode.
Arrrrgh. This has to be put in some FAQ. After upgrade FC1->FC2, people should either manually remove the line with XkbRules from xorg.conf (and/or XF86Config) or replace its value with "xorg".
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.