Bug#751955: About bug #751955: Broken /etc/default/keyboard
Hello,
In the log of Bug #751955 we can find the following comments:
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> Since one or two days, the keymap on my laptop is wrong at really early
> boot when I need to input the password for my cryptsetup partion.
> I encountered the exact same issue on Stretch. I just reinstalled my computer
> and then just wanted to move my root LVM volume to another one. I really don't
> know what I did wrong since it's not the first time I'm doing such things but
> well I may have done something bad that messed it up....
> The problem first appeared when I updated from Debian 8.0 to 8.1 - so there might
> be a lot of users affected.
> Just had this on a recent Jessie install. The culprit seems to be the absence
> of XKBMODEL in /etc/default/keyboard.
> Some days ago, probably after an update, I suddenly had a rough time entering my
> password on boot
> In my case changing keyboard layout settings in Gnome resulted in the XKBMODEL
> being deleted from /etc/default/keyboard.
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In all cases the problem seems to be caused by errors in /etc/default/keyboard.
It is known that gnome-control-center (and possibly other configuration programs
based on systemd/localed) erase the value of XKBMODEL from /etc/default/keyboard.
On the other hand, for Björn Siebke the problem seems to have arised after
upgrade from Debian_8.0 to Debian_8.1. Since Debian_8.0 and Debian_8.1 use
identical versions of console-setup, some other package must have corrupted
/etc/default/keyboard but I have no idea which one.
Therefore, I'd like to ask you: Have you observed this bug in situations when you
are certain you haven't used gnome-control-center or some other configuration
program based on systemd/localed?
Anton Zinoviev
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