can't change to virtual terminals after xorg upgrade

SerfurJ · l33t Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 824 Location: Texas

i used to be able to press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get out of X and to a virtual terminal. since i upgraded xorg, it just does this: [11^

does it have something to do with /etc/X11/xkb/keycodes/xfree86?

polle · Veteran Joined: 28 Feb 2003 Posts: 1498 Location: Belgium

I had same problem to after upgrading to xorg-6.8.0-r2, seems to be a bug in xbcomp, try this command:

md5sum /usr/X11R6/bin/xkbcomp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp

the result has to be the same, if not that's your problem, to solve it:

cp /usr/X11R6/bin/xkbcomp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp

SerfurJ · l33t Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 824 Location: Texas

that worked! thanks.

piffle · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Jun 2004 Posts: 98

Hey I have also had this frustrating problem!

That solution only half-worked tho. Now at least ctrl-alt-bs will kill X, but I still can't to any terminals. Any other suggestions of things to check?

SerfurJ · l33t Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 824 Location: Texas

i wish i didn't have to do this after every update. maybe i should submit a bug?

ydleiF · Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 3:45 pm Post subject:

I'm currently having the same problem, with 6.8.1.901, as I just posted here:

SerfurJ · l33t Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 824 Location: Texas

fire-eyes,
did you overwrite the new file with the old (original) file? did you restart X?

g4c9z · Apprentice Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Posts: 178

I'm still having this problem and am having to:

cp /usr/X11R6/bin/xkbcomp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp

after upgrading. However, this time I didn't upgrade X.org. I did do baselayout and some other things. I'd like to report a bug report but I don't know where the bug is or who to report it to. X.org? Gentoo? Something else?