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Bug#456029: console-data asks about keymap in base install



Package: installation-reports

Boot method: Netinst CD
Image version: 
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily.new/20071206-2/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso
Date: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 19:00 EST (Thursday, December 13, 2007 
00:00 UTC)

Machine: Whitebox with an ASUS P4B motherboard and Dell PERC 3/DCL (AMI 
MegaRAID) hardware RAID controller
Processor: Pentium 4 2.0 GHz
Memory: 1.5 GB
Partitions: 128 GB on logical disk 1 (sda) for /boot
            146 GB on logical disk 2 (sdb) for encrypted lvm

Swap, /tmp, /, /home, /var, /usr and another partition are all lvm volumes on 
an lvm group on sdb1_crypt which is an encrypted volume on sdb1 (which uses 
the entire logical volume).

Output of lspci -nn and lspci -vnn:

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:           [O]
Detect network card:    [O]
Configure network:      [O]
Detect CD:              [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives:     [O]
Partition hard drives:  [O]
Install base system:    [E]
Clock/timezone setup:   [O]
User/password setup:    [O]
Install tasks:          [O]
Install boot loader:    [O]
Overall install:        [E]

Comments/Problems:

During base system install console-data pops up a dialog with a technical 
dialogue about keymaps.  This is supposed to be handled by the initial 
language and keymap question in the installer, so I suspect a new option or 
other preseeding problem.

In any event the keymap question during base install is annoying since it 
means the install cannot complete until it is answered and it is somewhat 
confusing to determine what option should be selected as the default (don't 
touch keymap, use /xxx/console) is different than the recommended option 
(show arch keymaps).

The reason for the error for the overall install is submitted as a separate 
bug report since it is completely unrelated.

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