Comment 6 for bug 23422

> so setxkbmap just says 'error loading keyboard description'?

The situation right now is that

setxkbmap -layout ca -variant fr

works correctly, and I get the layout I was getting two weeks ago with the
ca_enhanced layout, and everything works fine. It is to be noted that the layout
and variant are also stated in my xorg.conf file. If I enter:

setxkbmap -layout ca_enhanced

I get the error: "Error loading new keyboard description". Trying to add the
Canada (Multilingual) layout in the Keyboard Preferences results in two "Error
activating XKB configuration" pop-ups. The layout switcher applet still doesn't
work, with or without the the CaE layout included, but this is probably a
separate bug.

I'm not familiar with xkbcomp so I simply did exactly what you said, and
attached the standard output.