* Bjorn Hansen (bhansen@uvic.ca) [030911 17:34]: > Hi > I'm running testing, recently upgraded after being away for the summer, and > when I boot my default keylayout is no longer set. > > It used to say something like "setting default keymap dvorak" - and I'd have > a dvorak layout on login, now it says nothing and I've got qwerty. > > A little research indicated that I should be able to use install-keymap to > set up my default. But this seems to have no effect whatsoever. Odd because > 'loadkeys dvorak' will have the desired effect, but that doesn't fix my > problem of the default. > > I even tried copying /usr/share/keymaps/i386/dvorak/dvorak.kmap.gz to > /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz , but no effect. any ideas? Yeah, try updating console-common to the unstable version. I got bit by this last week as well. It has to do with correctly checking the result of the call to fgconsole in /etc/init.d/keymap.sh . Actually, before you go updating, you can try this to see if your symptoms are the same as my system's: after booting, log in and issue sudo /etc/init.d/keymap.sh start, and it should work. The call to fgconsole succeeds differently after the system is booted up, everything is mounted, and you're logged in on a tty. So at this point, calling keymap.sh start works fine. At least, that's how it was on my system. Updating conosle-common and conosle-tools to the unstable versions did the trick. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- Microsoft has argued that open source is bad for business, but you have to ask, "Whose business? Theirs, or yours?" --Tim O'Reilly
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