On 9 Feb 2008, at 10:58, Simon Schampijer wrote: > Short term solution; > > - switch to a virtual console (alt+ctrl+F1 or alt+ctrl+F2) F1 is the > mesh view key and F2 the friends view key > - edit /home/olpc/.i18n > - nano /home/olpc/.i18n > - LANG="en_US.UTF-8" > - ctrl+o for save and ctrl+x for quitting
Hi Simon, Thanks for your rapid response. I got into the virtual console, logged in as root, and edited /home/ olpc/.i18n using nano, as you suggested. So far, so good. How should I have left the virtual console to return to the Sugar GUI? I exited from the root account, then rebooted the machine. It is now most unhappy. The virtual console appears and seems to cycle through the same process over and over. Eventually it settles down and displays the following: expected keysim, got KF86dbdBrightnessUp: line 72 of pc xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): Cannot register with ConsoleKit: org.freedesktop.CkConnector.Error: Unable to open session: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory Xlib: extension "XFree86-Misc" missing on display ":0.0". the XKEYBOARD keymap compiler reports: > Warning: Multiple names for keycode 211 > Using <1211>, ignoring <AB11> expected keysym, got KF86KbdLightOnOff; line 70 of pc expected keysym, got KF86KbdBrightnessDown; line 71 of pc expected keysym, got KF86KbdBrightnessUp; line 72 of pc > Warning: Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levers, but <HALT> has 2 symbols > Ignoring extra symbols Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the Xserver Traceback (most recent call last): <Many lines which could be important snipped> Backtrace: <Lines numbered from 0 to 7 snipped> Fatal server error Caught signal 11: server aborting Waiting for X server to shut down INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes What should I do now? NOTE: Before I set /home/olpc/.i18n to... LANG=am_ET.UTF-8 ... it read ... LANG="" ... and not ... LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ... as it does now. Also, I initially modified both /home/olpc/.i18n and /etc/sysconfig/ keyboard in order to display Amharic, but only changed /home/ olpc/.i18n when attempting to convert back to English. Thanks in advance for your help, James _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel