NetBSD Problem Report #42931

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From: tavvva@seznam.cz
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Subject: `setxkbmap cz qwerty` returns "Error loading new keyboard description"
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>Number:         42931
>Category:       xsrc
>Synopsis:       `setxkbmap cz qwerty` returns "Error loading new keyboard description"
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    xsrc-manager
>State:          closed
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Mar 07 12:50:01 +0000 2010
>Closed-Date:    Mon Oct 28 07:46:24 +0000 2019
>Last-Modified:  Mon Oct 28 07:46:24 +0000 2019
>Originator:     Jaromír Cápík
>Release:        5.0.2
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD TavvvaR61 5.0.2 NetBSD 5.0.2 (GENERIC) #0: Sat Feb  6 13:44:19 UTC 2010  builds@b8.netbsd.org:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5-0-2-RELEASE/amd64/201002061851Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5-0-2-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC amd64

>Description:
Only basic variant of czech keyboard layout works without problems...



>How-To-Repeat:
bash-4.1$ setxkbmap cz
bash-4.1$ setxkbmap cz qwerty
Error loading new keyboard description
bash-4.1$ setxkbmap cz -variant qwerty
Error loading new keyboard description
bash-4.1$ setxkbmap -layout cz -variant qwerty
Error loading new keyboard description





>Fix:
Workaround:

1.) su
2.) cd /usr/X11R7/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc
3.) cat cz | sed 's/y,          Y,       degree/z,          Z,       degree/' | sed 's/z,          Z,     NoSymbol/y,          Y,     NoSymbol/' > cz_qwerty

4.) setxkbmap cz_qwerty

>Release-Note:

>Audit-Trail:
From: David Holland <dholland-bugs@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: xsrc/42931: `setxkbmap cz qwerty` returns "Error loading new
	keyboard description"
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 19:48:28 +0000

 On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 12:50:01PM +0000, tavvva@seznam.cz wrote:
  > bash-4.1$ setxkbmap cz qwerty
  > Error loading new keyboard description

 Nice of it to say what the error was. :-|

 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland@netbsd.org

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: maya@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 07:46:24 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
I believe this issue was fixed. the reproduction certainly doesn't error, and the cz keyboard config has seen a good amount of upstream changes. thanks for the report.


>Unformatted:

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