Bug#65431: Keymap not loading on Thinkpad 365x

[Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>]

Jim Crumley <crumley@belka.space.umn.edu> writes:

> When trying to install potato on an IBM Thinkpad 365X, I can
> not get the keymap to load.  Everything loads normally until
> the point where I choose a keyboard. I choose keyboard type qwerty/us
> (and I get the same problem with other types), and I get the
> error message "Error loading the keymap i386/qwerty/us.bmap
> from /etc/keymaps.tgz."

This is very odd.  Can you see if /etc/keymaps.tgz is an uncorrupted,
non-zero file (try gunzip -tvv/etc/keymaps.tgz) ?

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