Bug#760993: console-setup: CHARMAP no longer set properly

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

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 08:10:54PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 06:16:26PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 08:18:01PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > > Package: console-setup
> > > Version: 1.111
> > > Severity: important
> > > 
> > > In /etc/default/console-setup I have:
> > > CHARMAP="ISO-8859-1"
> > > 
> > > However, my console acts like it's in UTF-8 mode.
> > > 
> > > If I restart the console-setup service it does get properly set,
> > > so I'm guessing something else is overriding it.
> > 
> > Hello!
> > 
> > Do you remember if this system used systemd?
> > 
> > Did you use the standard the QWERTY layout?  I mean is it possible that 
> > the console was leaved unconfigured (not only the charmap, but also the 
> > keyboard) and the only reason you didn't notice this was that you used 
> > QWERTY layout?
> 
> I have no idea on which system this was.  At least on this one I
> don't have console-setup installed, and I think it's currently the
> only one without systemd.  I'm going to guess it was on this one
> anyway.
> 
> All my systems are using qwerty.  I might also have configured it
> to not touch the font.

It is a known bug that very often console-setup doesn't configure the console 
during the boot if the system is using systemd.  This bug is going to be fixed in 
a next release, so I asked you this question in order fo find out if the same fix 
is going to fix the bug you reported as well.

On one hand, you use qwerty layout and (sometimes) the system font.  This means 
if the bug was observed on a system with systemd then it seems very likely that 
the bug you reported is identical with the bug "console-setup doesn't configure 
the console on boot with systemd".  In this case we will be able to close both 
bugs.

On the other hand, you suspect that the bug was observed on the system you used 
to write your last email message.  You say that currently console-setup is not 
installed on this system.  Unfortunately, your original bug report doesn't 
contain information whether console-setup was installed at the time you reported 
the bug, or not.  If console-setup was not installed, then the symptoms you 
reported are expected even if keyboard-configuration was installed.

So, what do you prefer we do with this bug?

Anton Zinoviev