On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 21:44:34 -0500, James Cloos wrote: > >>>>> "w" == walt <w41...@gmail.com> writes: > > w> Hi team. I'm trying to debug a recent commit to Linus's git repo > w> that causes startx to halt with a complaint that it can't write a > w> .xkm file to /var/lib/xkb. > > I saw that after an update to everything, but didn't have time to track > it down to a specific change. > > I made that dir g+w and chgrp(1)ed it to video (seemed close enough), > to which each X11-using user already belonged. The server started > working again. > Sounds like access() not working. The server is supposed to use /tmp if access() says it can't write to /var/lib/xkb, IIRC.
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