Bug 174361 - "Error activating XKB configuration" on modular Xorg
Summary: "Error activating XKB configuration" on modular Xorg
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: libxklavier
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact: Mike McLean
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-11-28 14:59 UTC by Ilya Konstantinov
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2006-03-13 05:35:17 UTC
Type: ---
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
Add XKB_BIN_BASE define (32.52 KB, patch)
2005-12-26 02:23 UTC, Ilya Konstantinov 		no flags Details | Diff
Patch libxklavier.spec to include my patch (596 bytes, patch)
2005-12-26 02:26 UTC, Ilya Konstantinov 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description Ilya Konstantinov 2005-11-28 14:59:24 UTC 
The Keyboad Indicator applet reports "Error activating XKB configuration" on
various operations after upgrading to the modular Xorg (0.99.1-3) packages. It
should be noted that libxkbfile version is 0.99.1-3.
Comment 1 Ilya Konstantinov 2005-12-26 01:46:36 UTC 
I've narrowed down one problem: It stems from the fact that
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb has moved to /usr/share/X11/xkb, and libxklavier's
autoconf script doesn't detect it. Also, libxklavier doesn't support a file
layout where /usr/share/X11/xkb only contains the data and the 'xkbcomp'
executable resides in a different place.

I'll be sending a patch once everything is ready.
Comment 2 Ilya Konstantinov 2005-12-26 02:23:32 UTC 
Created attachment 122582 [details]
Add XKB_BIN_BASE define

Patches the code to run xkbcomp from XKB_BIN_BASE/xkbcomp, and patches the
autoconf scripts to generate that define in config.h.

The actual files (configure and config.h) are provided as well within the
patch, since rpmbuild doesn't call autoconf/autoheader. If the patch goes
upstream, omit those files.
Comment 3 Ilya Konstantinov 2005-12-26 02:26:05 UTC 
Created attachment 122583 [details]
Patch libxklavier.spec to include my patch
Comment 4 Ilya Konstantinov 2005-12-26 02:28:45 UTC 
With this patch, the GNOME Keyboard Indicator applet still sees a very small
selection of layout options. Also, I'm unable to make it use more than one
layout... but at least it eliminates the error messages, so I guess we're
getting somewhere.

Sergey, please have a look.
Comment 5 Sergey V. Udaltsov 2005-12-26 18:44:03 UTC 
Well, this patch makes sense to me, generally. The only thing is that it
includes changes to the "configure" script which is autogenerated;) I'll apply
it ASAP. Except for .spec file - I think most people still use nonmodular Xorg...
Comment 6 Sergey V. Udaltsov 2005-12-26 18:53:16 UTC 
Committed.
Comment 7 Ilya Konstantinov 2005-12-26 20:11:02 UTC 
The spec is intended for Fedora. I didn't look at your spec. While in Fedora's
spec I allowed myself to hardcode the X directories, you should probably improve
configure.in to autodetect those values better; right now, $x_libraries was
simply not defined in my configure run (but I didn't research further into it).

Re autogenerated configure, I also included the configure.in file, which's what
you should take. The autogenerated one is for Fedora's consumption.
Comment 8 Ray Strode [halfline] 2006-03-13 05:35:17 UTC 
This has apparently been fixed in rawhide since Dec 27th.  Closing...

Thanks for the patch Ilya!
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