NetBSD Problem Report #42931
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Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 12:46:23 +0000 (UTC)
From: tavvva@seznam.cz
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To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
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.
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