Bug#689851: initramfs-tools: Wrong keymap at boot while prompting for the passphrase

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

On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 02:59:17PM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote:
> [Cc-ing Anton as being maintainer of setupcon]
> 
> > Calling hook keymap
> > Adding binary /bin/loadkeys
> > Adding library /lib/libcfont.so.0
> > Adding library /lib/libctutils.so.0
> > Adding library /lib/libconsole.so.0
> > WARNING: Unknown X keysym "XF86Messenger"
> > WARNING: Unknown X keysym "XF86Messenger"
> > WARNING: Unknown X keysym "XF86Messenger"
> > WARNING: Unknown X keysym "XF86Messenger"
> > WARNING: Unknown X keysym "XF86Messenger"
> > WARNING: Unknown X keysym "XF86Messenger"
> > WARNING: Unknown X keysym "XF86Messenger"
> > WARNING: Unknown X keysym "XF86Messenger"
> > WARNING: Unknown X keysym "XF86Messenger"
> > WARNING: Unknown X keysym "XF86Messenger"
> > WARNING: Unknown X keysym "XF86Messenger"
> > WARNING: Unknown X keysym "XF86Messenger"
> > WARNING: Unknown X keysym "XF86Messenger"
> > WARNING: Unknown X keysym "XF86Messenger"
> > WARNING: Unknown X keysym "XF86Messenger"
> > WARNING: Unknown X keysym "XF86Messenger"
> [...]
> 
> This looks like the culprit.
> 
> Anton, what do you think about this issue?

Unfortunately, no.  These warnings should be harmless (X recognises many 
keysyms that can be ignored on the console).

Here is some questionary to the bug reporter that may help us to debug 
the problem:

1. What is the contents of /etc/default/keyboard? 

2. Is the file /etc/default/keyboard correct?  Can the symbols of the 
password be typed properly on the text console after the system has 
booted completely?

3. Does the password contain some non-ASCII symbols?

4. Does your keymap layout contain dead symbols or other "surprises"?

5. I suppose the initrd-image can be extracted in the following way:

mkdir /tmp/i
cd /tmp/i
zcat /boot/_initrd_image_ | cpio -i

Please send us the file /tmp/i/etc/boottime.kmap.gz

Anton Zinoviev