Bug#822946: Don't set console setting over logout/login
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Package: console-setup
Version: 1.142
Severity: important
When using console-setup to setup proper console char set (latin1), it
does not preserve it over logout/login or reboot. After logout, the
console is again set to UTF-8 what makes it difficult to handle
passwords with umlauts or even usernames with German umlauts (even if
the last usecase is not supported).
When logging in as root and do dpkg-reconfigure console-setup with all
settings as before (or running cached_setup_font.sh), it works for all
presently consoles (until logout).
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (700, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 4.5.0 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii console-setup-linux 1.142
ii debconf 1.5.59
ii keyboard-configuration 1.142
ii xkb-data 2.17-1
console-setup recommends no packages.
Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii locales 2.22-7
ii lsb-base 9.20160110
Versions of packages keyboard-configuration depends on:
ii debconf 1.5.59
ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.07-1+b1
Versions of packages console-setup-linux depends on:
ii init-system-helpers 1.31
ii initscripts 2.88dsf-59.3
ii kbd 2.0.3-2
ii keyboard-configuration 1.142
console-setup-linux suggests no packages.
Versions of packages console-setup is related to:
ii console-common 0.7.89
ii console-data 2:1.12-5
pn console-tools <none>
pn gnome-control-center <none>
ii kbd 2.0.3-2
pn systemd <none>
- -- debconf information:
* console-setup/fontface47: Terminus
* console-setup/codeset47: # Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and Turkic languages
console-setup/framebuffer_only:
console-setup/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
* console-setup/fontsize-fb47: 6x12 (nur Framebuffer)
keyboard-configuration/switch: No temporary switch
keyboard-configuration/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
* keyboard-configuration/variant: Deutsch - Deutsch (ohne Akzenttasten)
keyboard-configuration/variantcode: nodeadkeys
keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_options: true
debian-installer/console-setup-udeb/title:
* keyboard-configuration/model: IBM ThinkPad 560Z/600/600E/A22E
keyboard-configuration/altgr: The default for the keyboard layout
keyboard-configuration/unsupported_options: true
console-setup/guess_font:
keyboard-configuration/other:
keyboard-configuration/toggle: No toggling
keyboard-configuration/layout:
* console-setup/charmap47: ISO-8859-1
keyboard-configuration/unsupported_layout: true
keyboard-configuration/modelcode: thinkpad
keyboard-configuration/ctrl_alt_bksp: true
console-setup/fontsize: 6x12
keyboard-configuration/compose: No compose key
keyboard-configuration/layoutcode: de
console-setup/use_system_font:
keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_layout: true
keyboard-configuration/optionscode: lv3:ralt_switch_multikey,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,shift:breaks_caps
console-setup/fontsize-text47: 6x12 (nur Framebuffer)
keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap: de(nodeadkeys)
console-setup/codesetcode: Lat15
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Klaus Ethgen http://www.ethgen.ch/
pub 4096R/4E20AF1C 2011-05-16 Klaus Ethgen <Klaus@Ethgen.ch>
Fingerprint: 85D4 CA42 952C 949B 1753 62B3 79D0 B06F 4E20 AF1C
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