Broken XKeysymDB in package

Bug #18129 reported by s.willert
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xorg (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

xlibs-data_6.8.2-23_all and xlibs-data_6.8.2-24_all don't seem to contain a
vaild XKeysymDB file.
/usr/lib/X11/XKeysymDB links to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB which seems to be
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_6.8.2-10_all,
copying the XKeysymDB from there and then upgrading to xlibs-data_6.8.2-24_all
again.

Revision history for this message
Daniel Stone (daniels) wrote :

Nope, this doesn't occur for anyone else, and would only be an issue if you
attempted broken workarounds involving making some directories symlinks. In
that case, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB could get replaced with a symlink to itself.

Closing as WORKSFORME because the .deb in the archive has an 8298-byte file.

daniels@gabe:~/tmp/xlibs-data% wget
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xorg/xlibs-data_6.8.2-24_all.deb
--03:24:39--
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xorg/xlibs-data_6.8.2-24_all.deb
           => `xlibs-data_6.8.2-24_all.deb'
Resolving archive.ubuntu.com... 82.211.81.138, 82.211.81.151
Connecting to archive.ubuntu.com[82.211.81.138]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 862,116 [application/x-debian-package]

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
XKeysymDB
-rw-r--r-- root/root 8298 2005-06-15 01:40:13 ./usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB
lrwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2005-06-15 01:41:40 ./usr/lib/X11/XKeysymDB ->
../../X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB

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