Broken XKeysymDB in package
Bug #18129 reported by
s.willert
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xorg (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Critical
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
xlibs-data_
vaild XKeysymDB file.
/usr/lib/
an invalid symlink.
This led to a non-operabale keyboard when used together with the XKB extension.
I fixed the situation on my machine by downgrading to xlibs-data_
copying the XKeysymDB from there and then upgrading to xlibs-data_
again.
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Nope, this doesn't occur for anyone else, and would only be an issue if you lib/X11/ XKeysymDB could get replaced with a symlink to itself.
attempted broken workarounds involving making some directories symlinks. In
that case, /usr/X11R6/
Closing as WORKSFORME because the .deb in the archive has an 8298-byte file.
daniels@ gabe:~/ tmp/xlibs- data% wget archive. ubuntu. com/ubuntu/ pool/main/ x/xorg/ xlibs-data_ 6.8.2-24_ all.deb archive. ubuntu. com/ubuntu/ pool/main/ x/xorg/ xlibs-data_ 6.8.2-24_ all.deb data_6. 8.2-24_ all.deb' ubuntu. com... 82.211.81.138, 82.211.81.151 ubuntu. com[82. 211.81. 138]:80. .. connected. x-debian- package]
http://
--03:24:39--
http://
=> `xlibs-
Resolving archive.
Connecting to archive.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 862,116 [application/
100%[== ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= ==>]
862,116 393.71K/s
03:24:41 (393.08 KB/s) - `xlibs- data_6. 8.2-24_ all.deb' saved [862116/862116]
daniels@ gabe:~/ tmp/xlibs- data% dpkg-deb -c xlibs-data_ 6.8.2-24_ all.deb | grep lib/X11/ XKeysymDB X11/XKeysymDB -> lib/X11/ XKeysymDB
XKeysymDB
-rw-r--r-- root/root 8298 2005-06-15 01:40:13 ./usr/X11R6/
lrwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2005-06-15 01:41:40 ./usr/lib/
../../X11R6/