Keyboard initialization failed. This could be a missing or incorrect setup of xkeyboard-config.

[KARR, DAVID (ATTSI)]

> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: Keyboard initialization failed. This could be a missing or
> incorrect setup of xkeyboard-config.
> 
> Hi! My Cygwin/X fails to start.
> 
> /var/log/xwin/XWin.0.log:
> >   [   667.715] (EE) XKB: Could not invoke xkbcomp
> >   [   667.715] (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap
> >   [   667.715] (EE) XKB: Failed to load keymap. Loading default
> keymap instead.
> >   [   669.571] (EE) XKB: Could not invoke xkbcomp
> >   [   669.571] (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap
> >   [   669.571] XKB: Failed to compile keymap
> >   [   669.571] Keyboard initialization failed. This could be a
> missing or incorrect setup of xkeyboard-config.
> >   [   669.571]
> >   Fatal server error:
> >   [   669.571] Failed to activate core devices.
> 
> Full /var/log/xwin/XWin.0.log is here (expires in 7 days):
> http://pastebin.com/80rjKMwb
> 
> At first X used to work well. Then problems started when I didn't log
> in Windows immediately when login prompt appeared. Now I can't start X
> at all.
> 
> "cygcheck xkbcomp" finds no failures in library loading and "rebaseall"
> does not help.

Until a better solution comes along, it's been noted in this list that "rebaseall -b 0x77000000" appears to resolve this.  It did for me, at least, when a plain "rebaseall" did not work.


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