XKB not working

[Harold Hunt]

Edmund,

You have stumbled across a bug that we have recently noticed.  We do not yet
know what causes it to happen, but we do have several reproducible test
cases.  Please watch the mailing list for news on how the fixing of this bug
is progressing.

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Edmund Urbani
> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 2:13 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: XKB not working
>
>
>
> Hi!
>
> Yesterday i installed cygwin with XFree 4.2.0. Everything worked fine
> from the start except that I could not set it up for my german keyboard
> layout. All I get, when I try to use eg. setxkbmap is a popup window
> (outside the X server as a normal Win2000-window) with this error
> message:
>
> Failed assertion
> fds_on_hold !=NULL
> at line 643 of file
> /cygnus/netrel/src/cygwin-1.3.10-1/winsup/cygwin/dtable.cc
>
> Other tools using XKB (like Kde Control Center) cause the same error.
>
> I found an earlier post from Charles L. Werner on this list, who appears
> to have (had?) the same problem, but there does not seem to be a helpful
> reply to that one.
> As a workaround I am currently using xmodmap in the X server's startup
> scripts, but I would really prefer to use XKB instead.
>
> So, any ideas what might be wrong with my X server? What is this
> fds_on_hold variable and that dtable.cc file all about, anyway?
>
>  Edmund
>