Bug#697255: keyboard-configuration: XKBVARIANT "us" for "us" layout causes XKB load error
Package: keyboard-configuration
Version: 1.90
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
On 1.89 -> 1.90 upgrade, /etc/default/keyboard is overwritten with
XKBVARIANT="us,tis" from the old value XKBVARIANT=",tis". This causes
xkbcomp error when starting X server:
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The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Error: No Symbols named "us" in the include file "us"
> Exiting
> Abandoning symbols file "default"
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.
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And all XKB functionalities do not work any more. (Most importantly, no
group switching, and thus no way to type non-US keysyms.)
Manually fixing XKBVARIANT back to ",tis" does solve the problem,
but whenever I "dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration",
it will be back again.
I think the relevant change is this one:
[ Anton Zinoviev ]
* Proofreading of debian/keyboard-configuration.config. Make the file a
little more readable with more comments. Some changes in the logic.
This probably fixes the important part of #693485. Thanks to Bob Bib.
I can see two occurrences of 'XKBVARIANT="us,' pattern in
debian/keyboard-configuration.config file. Replacing it with 'XKBVARIANT=",'
does solve the problem, but surely there can be other places where the
logic is hidden.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=th_TH.utf8, LC_CTYPE=th_TH.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages keyboard-configuration depends on:
ii debconf 1.5.49
ii initscripts 2.88dsf-35
ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-7+b1
keyboard-configuration recommends no packages.
keyboard-configuration suggests no packages.
Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii console-setup-linux 1.90
ii debconf 1.5.49
ii xkb-data 2.5.1-3
Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii locales 2.13-38
ii locales-all [locales] 2.13-38
ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian9
Versions of packages console-setup-linux depends on:
ii kbd 1.15.3-9
Versions of packages console-setup-linux suggests:
ii console-setup 1.90
Versions of packages keyboard-configuration is related to:
pn console-common <none>
pn console-data <none>
pn console-tools <none>
ii kbd 1.15.3-9
-- debconf information:
* console-setup/codeset47: # Thai
keyboard-configuration/layout:
keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap: th(tis)
* keyboard-configuration/variant: Thai - Thai (TIS-820.2538)
debian-installer/console-setup-udeb/title:
keyboard-configuration/unsupported_options: true
console-setup/framebuffer_only:
* keyboard-configuration/ctrl_alt_bksp: true
keyboard-configuration/variantcode: us,tis
console-setup/guess_font:
console-setup/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
keyboard-configuration/other:
keyboard-configuration/optionscode: grp:alt_shift_toggle,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,grp_led:scroll,ctrl:nocaps,lv3:ralt_switch
console-setup/use_system_font:
console-setup/fontsize: 8x16
keyboard-configuration/modelcode: pc105
* keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_options: true
* console-setup/fontface47: Fixed
keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_layout: true
* keyboard-configuration/toggle: Alt+Shift
* console-setup/fontsize-text47: 8x16
* keyboard-configuration/compose: No compose key
* keyboard-configuration/switch: No temporary switch
* console-setup/charmap47: UTF-8
* keyboard-configuration/altgr: Right Alt (AltGr)
console-setup/codesetcode: Thai
keyboard-configuration/unsupported_layout: true
* keyboard-configuration/model: Generic 105-key (Intl) PC
keyboard-configuration/layoutcode: us,th
* console-setup/fontsize-fb47: 8x16
keyboard-configuration/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
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