Killed all keyboard entry whilst fiddling with xkb

Solution 1:

Boot from the installation media. Once in a live session, open a terminal and mount your root file system on /mnt, then copy over the file from the live session to the mounted root filesystem:

cd /mnt/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols
sudo cp -a /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/pc .

Unmount /mnt and reboot. Everything should work. For added peace of mind, you may want to reinstall xkb-data.