Re: VT switching issue on netbsd-5.1_RC3

[Brad du Plessis <bradd%cat.co.za@localhost>]

On 8/3/2010 10:42 PM, matthew green wrote:
> > The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> >   >  Error:            Error interpreting include file "pc"
> >   >                    Exiting
> >   >                    Abandoning symbols file "default"
> >      
> ah!  this sounds like one of the potential issues with upgrading.  try
> following the instructions from this part of the 5.1 release notes:
>
>         If you are updating to NetBSD 5.1_RC3 without the aid of
>         sysinst or postinstall and your port uses X.Org, be sure to
>         remove /usr/X11R7/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc before extracting
>         the xbase set. In the version of X.Org shipped with 5.0,
>         this was a directory, but in more recent X.Org versions it
>         is a file.
>
> eg:
>
> # cd /
> # rm -rf /usr/X11R7/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc
> # pax -rzpe -f /path/to/xbase.tgz ./usr/X11R7/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc
>
> would be sufficient to fix this.
>    

Sweet that worked! Thanks so much! Maybe next time I'll read the 
instructions ...

Thanks,
 Brad