Re: localectl list-keymaps : Couldn't find any console keymaps

[Alberto Cortés <alcortesm@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 09:53:22PM +0200, Alberto Cortés wrote:
> Pretty much what the subject says.
> 
> I'm trying to configure my virtual consoles in Debian Jessie.
> 
> When I ask for a listing of the available keymaps, this is what I get
> instead:
> 
>   ; localectl list-keymaps
>   Couldn't find any console keymaps.
> 
> Other localectl incantations seem to be working just fine:
> 
>   ; localectl list-locales
>   C.UTF-8
>   en_US.utf8
> 
> More info:
> 
>   ; aptitude show console-data | egrep ^State
>   State: installed
> 
> P.S.: It is hard to find information about virtual console
> configuration nowadays, any pointer will be helpful, thanks.

First, sorry about the subject mistake and change.

Now, more info:

  ; strace localectl list-keymaps 2>&1 | tail -7
  lstat("/usr/share/kbd/keymaps", 0x7ffceed35a40) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
  lstat("/usr/lib/kbd/keymaps", 0x7ffceed35a40) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
  lstat("/lib/kbd/keymaps", 0x7ffceed35a40) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
  writev(2, [{"Couldn't find any console keymap"..., 34}, {"\n", 1}], 2Couldn't find any console keymaps.
  ) = 35
  exit_group(1)                           = ?
  +++ exited with 1 +++

That directories are not present on my system.

The console-data package seems to install some keymaps on other directories
though:

  ; dpkg -L console-data | grep keymaps
  [...]
  /usr/share/keymaps
  /usr/share/keymaps/atari
  /usr/share/keymaps/atari/atari-de-emacs.kmap.gz
  /usr/share/keymaps/atari/atari-us.kmap.gz
  /usr/share/keymaps/atari/atari-uk-deadkeys.kmap.gz
  /usr/share/keymaps/atari/atari-de.kmap.gz
  /usr/share/keymaps/atari/atari-fr.kmap.gz
  /usr/share/keymaps/atari/atari-se.kmap.gz
  /usr/share/keymaps/atari/atari-us-deadkeys.kmap.gz
  /usr/share/keymaps/atari/atari-uk.kmap.gz
  /usr/share/keymaps/atari/atari-de-deadkeys.kmap.gz
  /usr/share/keymaps/atari/atari-se-deadkeys.kmap.gz
  /usr/share/keymaps/amiga
  /usr/share/keymaps/amiga/amiga-it.kmap.gz
  /usr/share/keymaps/amiga/amiga-es.kmap.gz
  /usr/share/keymaps/amiga/amiga-fr.kmap.gz
  /usr/share/keymaps/amiga/amiga-de.kmap.gz
  /usr/share/keymaps/amiga/amiga-se.kmap.gz
  /usr/share/keymaps/amiga/amiga-us.kmap.gz
  /usr/share/keymaps/amiga/amiga-sg.kmap.gz
  /usr/share/keymaps/i386
  /usr/share/keymaps/i386/fgGIod
  /usr/share/keymaps/i386/fgGIod/trf.kmap.gz
  /usr/share/keymaps/i386/fgGIod/trfu.kmap.gz
  /usr/share/keymaps/i386/fgGIod/tr_f-latin5.kmap.gz
  /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty
  [...]