XFree86 3.3 startup/XKB problem

[Rich Carreiro]

I'm using RedHat 4.2 and have upgraded to XFree86 3.3. Since
then, my backspace and delete keys no longer work in text
widgets, forcing me to use ^H. The keys do work fine in
xterm, emacs, etc.

When I type "startx" to fire up the server, I get:
[snip]
(--) Mach64: Using 8 bits per RGB value
(--) Mach64: Pixmap cache: 1 256x256 slots, 2 128x128 slots, 8 64x64 slots
(--) Mach64: Font cache: 16 fonts
sh: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp: Command not found.
Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap

Sure enough, there's no xkbcomp there. So now I do:
% su - root
# cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/
# ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/xkbcomp xkbcomp

Now when I type "startx" I get:
[snip]
(--) Mach64: Using 8 bits per RGB value
(--) Mach64: Pixmap cache: 1 256x256 slots, 2 128x128 slots, 8 64x64 slots
(--) Mach64: Font cache: 16 fonts
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Error: Can't find file "xfree86" for keycodes include
> Exiting
> Abandoning keycodes file "default"
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap

So, any ideas if there are some special environment variables or
whatever that need to be set so that the server's call to xkbcomp
finds all the right directories, etc? My /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
directory appears to be complete.

Thanks for any help!

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