I rarely use X windows on one of my servers. However, for a change I typed in startx and to my surprise X started but complained about an internal error. The pop up box said to run the following commands if I was going to submit a bug report... gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb which gave the following output layouts = [us] model = pc105 overrideSettings = false options = [] and xprop -root | grep XKB which gave _XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "us", "", "" _XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "us", "", "" After experimenting I found that any non root user gets the same error message. The error window can be closed and X used without problems. root can run X without any error messages so I assume there is a permission problem somewhere. This is not the old xkb error. I fixed that months ago and everything was working fine up until now??? Any suggestions to fix this are welcome! -- Gerry "The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne" Chaucer
