Hello!

I just did a dist-upgrade to Etch. I ran into some trouble during the installation, which crashed. I had to re-do the upgrade a couple of times to get the entire distribution installed, and then had to do dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg to get X working again. Fine, logged in after that and everything looked nice and updated.

However, I then did a reboot and now the keyboard letters wont respond in X. I can still access KDE by logging in at the prompt and then launching X by the 'startx' command. Number keys, shift keys, space bar etc all work, but the keys with alphabetic letters don't.

I find this in the log, that could possibly have something to do with it:

Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/OTF, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/CID/, removing from list!



I have Debian installed on an iBook.

Grateful for any help you can offer!

Jakob

These errors are for X.

I assume your console is dead. Is it correct?

Well, everything's there, and in X, once I launch KDE, I can pretty much access anything but when it comes to writing I can only type numbers and things like comma, semi colon, hyphen etc. No alphabetic letters.

Something's messed up with X, definitely, but I also notice that even without running X letters will sometimes be displayed incorrectly, for example when shutting down, the log messages will be barely readable.

Thanks,

Jakob

Do you have any font path set? (check log file for X)

What happens if you un-install some fonts and re-install them again?

Do you see any errors in dmesg and syslog?