Bug#529862: switching from xorg to console and you have to rexec dpkg-reconfigure console-setup

[Javier Barroso <javibarroso@gmail.com>]

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 23:42:25 +0200, Javier Barroso wrote:
>
>> Every time I go from X to vt a I have to exec dpkg-reconfigure
>> console-setup and select the same options.
>>
>> Seems like dpkg-reconfigure console-setup is not saving persistently my config.
>>
>> When I change to vt and I want to write 'á' it draws a '╗', then I
>> exec dpkg-reconfigure console-setup, and works again
>>
> What's the content of /etc/default/console-setup?
# grep -v "^$\|^#" /etc/default/console-setup
VERBOSE_OUTPUT=no
ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]"
CHARMAP="UTF-8"
CODESET="Lat15"
FONTFACE="VGA"
FONTSIZE="16"
XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="es"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch"
BOOTTIME_KMAP_MD5="ee61277da381d406d57d7f15c7bf66eb"

Yesterday I post the bug from home (today I'm working), so debconf
could be different so I reposting debconf settings (so no
incongruences between file and debconf)


*** The following debconf settings were detected:
* console-setup/variant: España
  console-setup/unsupported_options: true
  console-setup/modelcode: pc105
  console-setup/use_system_font:
  console-setup/fontsize: 16
  console-setup/unsupported_layout: true
  console-setup/layoutcode: es
  debian-installer/console-setup/title:
  console-setup/codesetcode: Lat15
  console-setup/dont_ask_layout:
* console-setup/altgr: Right Alt
* console-setup/ttys: /dev/tty[1-6]
* console-setup/codeset: # Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and
Turkic languages
  console-setup/toggle: No toggling
* console-setup/fontface: VGA
* console-setup/fontsize-text: 16
* console-setup/compose: No compose key
  debian-installer/console-setup-udeb/title:
  console-setup/switch: No temporary switch
  console-setup/unsupported_config_layout: true
* console-setup/charmap: UTF-8
  console-setup/optionscode: lv3:ralt_switch
  console-setup/unsupported_config_options: true
* console-setup/layout: España
  console-setup/variantcode:
* console-setup/model: PC genérico 105 teclas (intl)
* console-setup/fontsize-fb: 16

Thank you