Thread: solaris 10 keyboard problems

Hi, i installed Solaris 10 today.

After successfully setting the keyboard layout to Croatian, i also wanted to change some keys like [ etc because they werent set properly, weirdly (even though i chose the correct keyboard layout).

So i got advised to execute this code in the terminal loged in as root:

Code:

mkdir -p /etc/dt/config
cp /usr/dt/config/Xstartup /etc/dt/config/
cat >> /etc/dt/config/Xstartup <<%EOF%
xmodmap -e "keycode  55 = v V at grave"
xmodmap -e "keycode  24 = q Q backslash Greek_OMEGA"
xmodmap -e "keycode  25 = w W bar Lstroke"
xmodmap -e "keycode  26 = e E EuroSign EuroSign"
xmodmap -e "keycode  41 = f F bracketleft ordfeminine"
xmodmap -e "keycode  42 = g G bracketright ENG"
xmodmap -e "keycode  45 = k K lstroke ampersand"
xmodmap -e "keycode  46 = l L lstroke Lstroke"
xmodmap -e "keycode  56 = b B braceleft apostrophe"
xmodmap -e "keycode  57 = n N braceright braceright"
xmodmap -e "keycode  58 = m M asciicircum masculine"
%EOF%

Which i did.

After this, i loged out, and after that every time i get to the login screen, i enter root - after that solaris goes to console for a sec, and then again back to login screen. And so on. I cant get in the GUI, i just enter root at login, it goes back to console for a second and then back to login.

What did i do?

Well, obviously this file did not exist before BUT it is part of some potential default search path for "Xstartup", otherwise it could not do anything at all.

If the pattern is that we check for this file until we find ONE, then you may have overridden a different, existing Xstartup in some other location. Possibly, if you intend to use multiple Xstartups, you are suppose to source one from the other.

Just a guess...anyway, mount the partition from somewhere else (eg, a cdrom) and remove that file you added.

You installed "today", you said. Are you positive this is the problem?

I'd stop wasting time and reinstall (how long does it take, 1/2 hour?). You are smart to do little experiments like this right away, when it is easy and harmless to reinstall repeatedly (nothing wrong with that), until you gain a better understanding, which will come at least in part from hands-on experimentation. Like for example: installing/reinstalling.

Code:

mkdir -p /etc/dt/config
cp /usr/dt/config/Xstartup /etc/dt/config/
cat >> /etc/dt/config/Xstartup <<%EOF%

Well, they won't do anything serious in and of themselves. However, cat>> is append, so here's a few thoughts.

1) what is dt? (as in, /usr/config/dt, /etc/dt) It could be that by placing that file in the /etc directory, you are activating "it" -- ie, with the file just in /usr, "dt" does not run. Or runs differently.
2) What else is in Xstartup?
3) if the file in /usr is used AND the one in etc is also used, whatever you appended to is executed twice.