reassign 606843 xkb-data severity 606843 important thanks Quoting Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org): > Hi again, > > debian-user-finnish@ added since I need some feedback on that > fi-specific issue. Context: broken debian installer with Finnish > keymap, see bugs #606840 and #606843. > > Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> (12/12/2010): > > I know nothing about fi for now, probably a xkb-data bug; will try to > > look into what happened upstream since the version we're shipping. > > I know kung^Wabout fi now. > > One workaround: > - Stick to 'American English' instead of 'Finnish'. > - Validate that choice, you get 'setxkbmap us' or so. > - On the next prompts, select 'Go back' until the menu appears. At the > bottom of the menu, pick 'Execute a shell'. > - Run this command: 'setxkbmap fi'. > - Exit the terminal and go back to your installation process. > > The (probable) actual bug: Looking into /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/fi > one can see that the section starting with “xkb_symbols "fi" {”, > there's no "include" besides kpdl and level3, meaning no “basic” > keys. So you only get the ones which are listed in that section. Which > breaks “setxkbmap fi fi” so badly. > > AFAICT, adding “include latin(type2)” for example as the first line of > this section makes it possible to get a working keyboard with > “setxkbmap fi fi”. People may try editing this file from the shell > (see above for instructions), with the “nano” editor (and then run > “setxkbamp fi fi”), or in a non-debian-installer environment, to make > sure it does what people may expect from it. > > This bug probably should be reassigned to xkb-data. An upload will > follow as soon as I get feedback from fi-knowledgeable people. Reassigning, then. I think an upload is OK and is worth going into squeeze as all install with the finnish keymap are badly broken by this bug. Thanks for your analysis, Cyril.
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