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Created attachment 550934 [details] xorg log Yesterday my Fedora 16 machine would seemingly not boot: the boot would start with plymouth and then sit there on a black screen. Turns out that gdm couldn't start anymore. Manually running "startx" as my normal user, I would be in the fallback gnome3 session instead of a normal session. Turns out that Xorg was broken. The attached log gives a hint as to why: it was choking on trying to parse the keyboard layout (although the log kinda made it seem like the error was non-fatal). I will also attach the faulty keyboard layout file that was found in the xorg.conf.d directory. The cause of all this is the "Copy settings..." button in gnome-control-center's "Region and Language" preferences. I am using the "Canada (French)" locale with the "French (Canada, Dvorak)" keyboard layout, but I also have two other keyboard layouts alongside it for other people to be able to use my computer when debugging at hackfests. It seems that gnome-control-center generates invalid xorg conf files, causing the whole graphical experience to break down.
Created attachment 550935 [details] faulty xorg conf file
Created attachment 550936 [details] screenshot
(In reply to comment #1) > Created attachment 550935 [details] > faulty xorg conf file The problem with this xorg conf file is, that XkbLayouts and XkbVariants has to be specified separately in the lists with matching positions. See http://vpodzime.fedorapeople.org/01-anaconda-keyboard.conf for the example ('us' and 'cz (qwerty)' layouts are specified there.
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This should be fixed in F18, FWIW.
Ah yes, forgot to close this.