From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050909 Red Hat/1.0.6-1.4.2 Firefox/1.0.6 Description of problem: After setting up a diskless image with system-config-netboot I am having issues with clients getting X up and running as expected. Specifically as X is started via a run level 3 startx or after a login from the gui at run level 5 a window pops up stating "Error activating XKB configuration. Probably internal X server problem.". In an effort to correct this I have rerun system-config-display --noui on the client from run level 3 to insure the local personality of the diskless image is correct but the error window continues to pop up each time X is started. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. create diskless image 2. boot to run level 3 or 5 3. startx or log into xdm 4. error window reporting XKB error pops up. Additional info:
I think I've found the cause of the problem here: /var/lib/xkb must be a snapshot directory, because on Xorg startup, it invokes 'xkbcomp' to compile the keymap description . When s-c-nb was first develeped XFree86 was in use, and this was not an issue. So, to fix: 1. For each of your $NETBOO/snapshot/$client/ directories, create the /var/lib/xkb directory - this command should probably work: # for d in $NETBOOT/snapshot/*/var/lib; do mkdir $d/xkb; done (where $NETBOOT is the root location of your PXE OS, containing the 'root' directory where the OS is installed). 2. Add /var/lib/xkb to $NETBOOT/snapshot/files.custom 3. reboot your clients. The next release will put /var/lib/xkb in the snapshot/files list .
This bug is now fixed with system-config-netboot-0.1.33-1_EL4, which should be in RHEL-4-U3. Meanwhile, you can download it from: http://people.redhat.com/~jvdias/system-config-netboot/RHEL-4 .