xkeyboard-config, missing or incorrect setup

M

mrfree

Hello all, while deleting stuff out of my tmp file I came across a problem. After rebooting and trying to start the x server I get this error.

Code: 
Error  Cannot open /tmp/server-0.xkm to write keyboard description

(EE) Error compiling keymap(server-0)
(EE)XKB: Couldn't compile keymap
XKB: failed to compile keymap
keyboard initialization failed. This could be a missing or incorrect setup of xkeyboard-config
Fatal server error
Failed to activate core device

xinit: giving up
xinit:unable to connect to Xserver: Connection Refused
xinit:Server Error

I tried to delete and reinstall xorg, spectrwm, and keyboard-config but nothing fixed the problem. Tmp is already populated again, so its not that xserver cant find the xkeyboard-config its just not allowed to open and use it. I also say that cause when I "sudo startx" the x server starts up with the default 3 terminals and a clock, like normal. I also deleted all the users and recreated them but it still will only start with "sudo"

Code: 
>ls -ld /tmp  drwxr-xr-x 9 root wheel 512
>ls -ld /tmp/server-0.xkm drw-rw---- 2 mrfree wheel 512

Any and all help will be extremely appreciated
 
Also I have tried to change the permissions of the file, after reading the FreeBSD handbook on changing permissions. I even looked through Google and the closet I came to a solution was, somebody posted on a Linux forum with the similar problem. Their fix was to chmod 777 /tmp && /var/tmp. I tried and this is what happened

Code: 
>cd /tmp/server-0.xkm 
/tmp/server-0.xkm:Permission Denied
also as root when I try to cd into server-0.xkm it says "the file or directory doesn't exist"
 
Sorry for posting so many responses to my own thread. I apologize. I have fixed the problem, I reinstall xkbcomp and I also just deleted server-0.xkm. After reinstalling xkbcomp, I sudo cd /tmp/server-0.xkm and I found 3 directory's from my original usr/home/mrfree directory. After deleting them all I then deleted server-0.xkm and now everything is back in working order. Terribly sorry for the thread guys, hopefully it will help someone out one day
 
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