Bug#620228: keyboard-configuration: Error in "Setting preliminary keymap": mktemp fails (Read-only file system)

[Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:11:49AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> 
> In the boot messages:
> 
> Thu Mar 31 09:46:12 2011: Setting preliminary keymap...mktemp: failed to create file via template `/tmp/tmpkbd.XXXXXX': Read-only file system
> Thu Mar 31 09:46:12 2011: Can not create temporary file
> Thu Mar 31 09:46:12 2011: ^[[31mfailed.^[[39;49m
> 
> There was no such error when I booted on March 21 (with the
> previous Linux kernel 2.6.38-1-amd64 and an older version of
> keyboard-configuration).

Thanks for your report.

Yes, there were changes that caused this error message.  It is, however, 
more or less harmless and I think it won't appear again if you reboot 
the machine.

I will change the scripts to make sure this message does not show up.

Anton Zinoviev