Bug#610843: debian-installer: keyboard selection does not work with graphical installer
Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
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I used the "Graphical install" option.
In the step "Select a language" I chose "German - Deutsch".
In the step "Select your location" I chose "Switzerland".
The first issue is that in the next step "Configure the keyboard" I expected
to have "Swiss German" preselected (as every other well-known distributions
do), but instead "American English" was preselected. I manually chose "Swiss
German".
The second issue is that this choice did not work. The keyboard layout was
still "American English" for the whole installation process.
The third issue is that the installed system also used the "American English"
keyboard instead of "Swiss German". I noticed that in /etc/default/keyboard
there was
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XKBLAYOUT="us"
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instead of
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XKBLAYOUT="ch"
XKBVARIANT="de"
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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