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I wanted to customize my keyboard shortcuts and followed the advice given here: Why did 13.10 break my custom keyboard layout?

I modified my /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us file and deleted *.xkm files from /var/lib/xkb and rebooted. But for some reason Ubuntu failed to recompile the *.xkm files and now my us keyboard isn't working. (Even us virtual screen keyboard on Ubuntu login screen doesn't work due to missing xkm errors). For some strange reason my Russian keyboard layout still works, but it doesn't help much. So how can I restore those *xkm files in /var/lib/xkb? I have *xkm files in another computer, maybe I can just copy them to the broken one?

This command sudo dpkg-reconfigure xkb-data didn't work for me either.

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It seems, that problem was with the /var/lib/xkb folder write permissions. I changed it with:

sudo chmod a=rwx /var/lib/xkb

(which was not easy without english/us keyboard) And after reboot I was able to use US layout again.

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