I installed Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.0.
I uploaded the ios images of Ubuntu Studio 22.04.3 LTS and Mint 21.2 to VirtualBox and they worked w/o difficulty.
I decided to install Ubuntu Studio onto the VirtualBox Hard disk 25Gb (/dev/sda). I started Ubuntu Studio and it worked at first but then it crashed. The host op system had also crashed so I crashed the pc. On rebooting a message said error activating ‘XKB configuration’ with this error report: -
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Error activating XKB configuration.
"There can be various reasons for that.
"
"If you report this situation as a bug, include the results of
" xprop -root | grep XKB
" gsettings get org.gnome.libgnomekbd.keyboard model
" gsettings get org.gnome.libgnomekbd.keyboard layouts
" gsettings get org.gnome.libgnomekbd.keyboard options"The host op system pc filesystem had almost no space and messages kept popping up saying the host os hard disk was almost full. Prior to this experiment there had been over 100gb of free space.
I did a Timeshift system restore - it didn’t work
I found this Mint Forums thread
viewtopic.php?t=353128
Which stated that the only fix was a fresh installation of the op system. My error seemed to be identical so I did a fresh installation of Mint
I discovered this Manjaro thread afterwards which suggests that the XKB error is something to do with keyboard settings.
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/error-activ ... -8-6/71732
The thread states that: ‘running the following command does fix the issue whenever it happens’.
setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout us,es -option grp:win_space_toggle
I’m now wary of using VirtualBox. I assume that the KB in XKB stands for keyboard. It seems likely to me that keyboard compatibility issues could arise when using a virtual machine because the keyboard settings of the virtual os might be different to those of the host os.
If the problem can be fixed by the above command then I’d be happy to install and use VirtualBox again.
Has anyone tried to use that command to fix this problem?
