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PostPosted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 9:25 am    Post subject: [SOLVED]: XKEYMAP error Reply with quote

Hi, ALL,
Today I needed to reboot my laptop from Windows to Linux. I did that couple of weeks ago without any problems, but apparently not today.

After long boot up and successful login (it was stuck on fixing the /tmp directory) I issued "startx" and got following (copying from console):

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The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Error: Cannot open "/tmp/server-0.xkm" to write keyboard description
> Exiting
XKB: Failed to compile keymap
Keyboard initialization failed. This could be a missing or incorrect setup of xkeyboard-config.

Fatal server error


Any idea on how do I fix such a problem?

Thank you.


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PostPosted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 9:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ALL,
When the boot holds, on the screen I see following:

Code:

/tmp: correcting mode


Does anybody knows what it means?

Also, I just checked this:

Code:

ls -la /
........
drwxr-xr-x 6 mysql mysql 4096 Sep 29 14:44 tmp
.......


Any idea what went wrong?

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 26, 2013 3:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

So what, nobody knows what this means and why does it hangs?

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 8:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi, ALL,
This problem is still stands and its now more serious as I require booting Linux.

Does anybody have any idea what might be going on?

I will be happy to post any logs or messages especially related to the boot problem....

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 1:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

try "chmod 1777 /tmp"
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 6:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi, Jean-Paul,
The problem is that this is a dual-boot machine and I will need to go back and forth between Windows and Gentoo.
And it actually means that something is resetting access rights to /tmp either on shutdown or early on start-up.

That message shows up after

Code:

Starting mysql


Could someone please help me figure this out?

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 7:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Moreover Jean Paul's suggestion is a workaround, not a solution, because on the next reboot I will have exactly the same problem.

So, once again - anybody knows how to fix it?

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 7:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wild guess: Change assignment of tmpdir in /etc/mysql/my.cnf to something other than "/tmp/" and reset owner:group of /tmp to root:root?
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 20, 2014 5:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fitzcarraldo,
No, unfortunately that didn't fix the boot process. I'm still stuck on the same message.

Any other idea?

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 10:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Guys,
Here's the end of the /var/log/mysql/mysqld.err: here

Does anybody know how to fix it?

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 27, 2014 9:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The problem is fixed in here.

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