Bug#983559: console-setup: settings in /etc/default/keyboard lost silently during upgrade
Package: console-setup
Version: 1.201
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: bence.romsics@gmail.com
Dear Maintainer,
After a recent apt-get upgrade, dist-upgrade and reboot I noticed my
keyboard settings were reverted to their defaults.
I keep these settings in /etc/default/keyboard, and since I have
/etc under git (via etckeeper), I can show the change autocommited by
the upgrade:
# cd /etc && git diff a7d7c52 dd9bba3 -- default/keyboard
diff --git a/default/keyboard b/default/keyboard
index 5589b6f..d72a57a 100644
--- a/default/keyboard
+++ b/default/keyboard
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@
# /etc/init.d/console-setup.sh
XKBMODEL="pc105"
-XKBLAYOUT="us,hu"
+XKBLAYOUT="us"
# parallel list to XKBLAYOUT
-XKBVARIANT=",102_qwerty_dot_nodead"
-XKBOPTIONS="grp:alt_shift_toggle,lv3:ralt_switch,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
+XKBVARIANT=""
+XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
BACKSPACE="guess"
# git show --oneline dd9bba3 | head -1
dd9bba3 committing changes in /etc made by "apt-get upgrade"
The upgrade did not prompt me about changes to this file under /etc,
its content was silently changed.
Please note that the whole file was not replaced (for example a comment of
mine was retained), rather it was edited.
I was trying to find which package the /etc/default/keyboard conffile
belongs to (my best guess being console-setup), however I found that on
my system no package claims this conffile - I believe this may be part
of the root cause:
# egrep -H /etc/default/keyboard /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.conffiles
[no output]
However the man pages keyboard(5) and setupcon(1) make me believe this
conffile actually belongs to console-setup.
Now I manually restored my previous keyboard settings,
however I believe the change to this config file should not have been silent.
Please let me know if I should collect other information about my system.
Thanks in advance,
Bence Romsics
Excerpt from /var/log/dpkg.log during the upgrade:
2021-02-25 15:15:50 upgrade console-setup-linux:all 1.195 1.201
2021-02-25 15:15:50 status half-configured console-setup-linux:all 1.195
2021-02-25 15:15:50 status unpacked console-setup-linux:all 1.195
2021-02-25 15:15:50 status half-installed console-setup-linux:all 1.195
2021-02-25 15:15:52 status unpacked console-setup-linux:all 1.201
2021-02-25 15:15:52 upgrade keyboard-configuration:all 1.195 1.201
2021-02-25 15:15:52 status half-configured keyboard-configuration:all 1.195
2021-02-25 15:15:52 status unpacked keyboard-configuration:all 1.195
2021-02-25 15:15:52 status half-installed keyboard-configuration:all 1.195
2021-02-25 15:15:52 status unpacked keyboard-configuration:all 1.201
2021-02-25 15:15:52 upgrade console-setup:all 1.195 1.201
2021-02-25 15:15:52 status half-configured console-setup:all 1.195
2021-02-25 15:15:52 status unpacked console-setup:all 1.195
2021-02-25 15:15:52 status half-installed console-setup:all 1.195
2021-02-25 15:15:53 status unpacked console-setup:all 1.201
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (800, 'unstable'), (500, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii console-setup-linux 1.201
ii debconf 1.5.74
ii keyboard-configuration 1.201
ii xkb-data 2.29-2
console-setup recommends no packages.
Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii locales 2.31-9
ii lsb-base 11.1.0
Versions of packages keyboard-configuration depends on:
ii debconf 1.5.74
ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.07-4+b1
Versions of packages console-setup-linux depends on:
ii init-system-helpers 1.60
ii initscripts 2.96-6
ii kbd 2.3.0-3
ii keyboard-configuration 1.201
console-setup-linux suggests no packages.
Versions of packages console-setup is related to:
pn console-common <none>
pn console-data <none>
pn console-tools <none>
pn gnome-control-center <none>
ii kbd 2.3.0-3
ii systemd 247.3-1
-- debconf information:
keyboard-configuration/layout:
* console-setup/codeset47: # Latin2 - central Europe and Romanian
keyboard-configuration/switch: No temporary switch
keyboard-configuration/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
debian-installer/console-setup-udeb/title:
* keyboard-configuration/ctrl_alt_bksp: true
* keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_layout: false
console-setup/use_system_font:
console-setup/framebuffer_only:
* keyboard-configuration/compose: No compose key
* console-setup/charmap47: UTF-8
keyboard-configuration/unsupported_options: true
* keyboard-configuration/variant: English (US)
keyboard-configuration/toggle: No toggling
keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_options: true
keyboard-configuration/layoutcode: us
console-setup/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
console-setup/guess_font:
keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap: us
console-setup/fontsize-text47: 8x16
keyboard-configuration/optionscode: lv3:ralt_switch,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
* keyboard-configuration/model: Generic 105-key PC (intl.)
* keyboard-configuration/altgr: Right Alt (AltGr)
* console-setup/fontface47: Terminus
keyboard-configuration/variantcode:
keyboard-configuration/modelcode: pc105
console-setup/fontsize: 8x16
* console-setup/fontsize-fb47: 8x16
keyboard-configuration/other:
console-setup/codesetcode: Lat2
keyboard-configuration/unsupported_layout: true
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