Just for the archives and in case anyone else runs into this .... Something seems to have choked during an update of XFree86 here and it looks like something in the directory structure got hosed. If I do a "ls" of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb I see: 12:58:22 # ls compat geometry keycodes.dir README rules symbols.dir xkbcomp compat.dir geometry.dir keymap README.config semantics types compiled keycodes keymap.dir README.enhancing symbols types.dir but if I do a "ll" I see: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 16 11:12 compat -r--r--r-- 1 root root 689 Feb 12 12:27 compat.dir lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Feb 16 11:12 compiled -> ../../../../../var/lib/xkb -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1730 Oct 24 17:07 geometry.dir drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Nov 8 14:29 keycodes -r--r--r-- 1 root root 2517 Oct 24 17:07 keycodes.dir drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Nov 8 14:29 keymap -r--r--r-- 1 root root 8478 Oct 24 17:07 keymap.dir -r--r--r-- 1 root root 983 Feb 12 12:27 README -r--r--r-- 1 root root 7548 Feb 12 12:27 README.config -r--r--r-- 1 root root 23367 Feb 12 12:27 README.enhancing drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 8 14:29 rules drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Nov 8 14:29 symbols -r--r--r-- 1 root root 38570 Oct 24 17:07 symbols.dir drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 8 14:29 types -r--r--r-- 1 root root 464 Oct 24 17:07 types.dir -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 288132 Oct 24 17:19 xkbcomp You'll note that there is no "geometry" directory in the "ll" whereas there is in the "ls" ( 8-0 ) I don't know why this happens but this melds well with the failure to install the XFree86 rpm which gives an error message: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compat/xfree86;4030f9ef D: fini 120777 1 ( 0, 0) 26 D: undo 040755 4 ( 0, 0) 0 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/geometry GZDIO: 935 reads, 7659520 total bytes in 0.152 secs error: unpacking of archive failed: cpio: lstat failed - Input/output error I re-booted into single user mode and deleted the "gemoetry" directoy and tried to re-install the XFree86 rpm but found that not only the "geometry" directory but also the "semantics" and the "symbols" directory had to be deleted in order for the installation of the RPM to succeed. After succeeding, the RPM seems to have re-constructed everything again. All "seems" well now that I've rebooted back into GUI mode. Regards, Mike Klinke
