Hello,

here is a Debian bug report:

When running setxkbmap on my sparc with type 5 keyboard (whose layout
seems broken by other things I am still investigating), trying to run
setxkbmap results in an error due to a missing sun.lst file:

execve("/usr/bin/setxkbmap", ["setxkbmap"], [/* 20 vars */]) = 0
[...]
readv(3, [{"sun\0type5\0us\0\0\0", 15}, {"\0", 1}], 2) = 16
open("./rules/sun-C.lst", O_RDONLY)     = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("./rules/sun.lst", O_RDONLY)       = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/sun-C.lst", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/sun.lst", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
write(2, "Couldn\'t find rules file (sun) \n", 32 ) = 32
exit_group(-4)                          = ?

When I generate the file with the xml2lst.pl script from the source,
at least I get the same type of error as when starting the X server and
not about not finding a rules file.

Thanks for considering.