On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 08:52 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Sam Morris (sam@robots.org.uk): > > Package: installation-reports > > Severity: important > > > > Chose United Keyboard layout in the installer. This choice remains in effect > > during the installation and on the console after installation, but when I > > log into X11 I am stuck with a US keyboard layout. > > > > This would make it rather difficult for someone with unusual characters > > in their password (such as £ or á) from logging in. > > > > I think this happens because the xorg.conf that is created by the installer > > is empty. > > > > This is a regression from previous releases, which put the keyboard > > layout chosen by the installer in xorg.conf. > > > Sorry, Sam, that your install report got unanswered.... > > To get deeper into this, we might need a few more details. > > What installer image were you using, exactly? Was this a daily built > image downloaded from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer? If > so, what image was this? > > I would strongly recommend using the netboot (not netinst, netboot) > image as of now, or eventually the businesscard image. > > Then, what branch of the distribution were you installing? Was this > the default (thus "testing") or was this unstable (that can be done by > passing "mirror/suite=unstable" at the boot prompt, or in expert > install)? I used the netboot images downloaded from <http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/i386/initrd.gz> and <http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/i386/linux> to install lenny. Unfortunately, installing by any other method was not possible since the system in question did not have a DVD drive. :) > If you can, can you redo this install by installing unstable? I'm afraid I can't do this because the systems in question are now in use. However I think it's probably fixed in unstable, since xorg now gets its default key map from HAL. I can poke about the systems next week if you want me to retrieve any further logs or configuration files from them. I will try to do a netboot install into a virtual machine when I have a spare moment and see if I can reproduce this, and see if it's a problem specific to a network install or whether it comes up with an installation from CD. I think the problem is caused by whichever part of the system generates the xorg.conf; on these systems it was empty, rather than containing the usual keyboard layout options. As to why it's empty... it's either intended to be like that (which seems strange; I thought the xorg autoconfig-from-HAL magic landed post-lenny) or perhaps a bug in the script causes it to abort before writing out the keyboard configuration. Such a bug may be specific to the hardware I was installing on (an ASUS Eee PC 904HD) or it may not. Dunno. :) -- Sam Morris https://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078
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