issues with clamd and xkb (xorg) - resolved (/var/tmp)

[tschenturs]

Hi

After some upgrades last night, I noticed the following issues this morning:

A) clamd-0.85 didn't come up, couldn't write into the temporary directory /var/tmp. Silly enough, I managed to quickly resolved this issue by changing the temp directory in /etc/clamd from /var/tmp to /tmp - which worked - but wasn't the cure to the problem.

B) xkb keymaps couldn't be loaded (Xorg.log complained: "Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap")
This resulting in dead ALT keys, stopped my from typing a pipe or backslash on a Swiss keyboard - or to switch to the terminals via ALT-Fx.
There are many threads about it (e.g. https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-227362.html). None helped in my case.

I tried fiddling around with kde, xorg.conf etc. Nothing helped. Later I remembered the clamd issue and checked the properties of /var/tmp. In contrast to another gentoo box, it only showed

[WladyX]

Thanks a lot, i was having the same issuse with X and keybord, your solution bailed me out
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