keyboard-configuration set's console layout to us,af on update

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

Binary package hint: console-setup

$ dpkg -l console-setup keyboard-configuration
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-=====================-=====================-==========================================================
ii console-setup 1.57ubuntu2 console font and keymap setup program
ii keyboard-configuratio 1.57ubuntu2 system-wide keyboard preferences
hildeb@gilgamesch:~$ uname -a
Linux gilgamesch 2.6.37-12-generic #26-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jan 5 18:35:17 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
hildeb@gilgamesch:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu natty (development branch)
Release: 11.04

WIth today's upgrade, the keyboard settings on the (framebuffer)-console are off. Although I'm specifying a german keyboard, I keep getting US keys (z and y swapped, no umlauts).

[Ralf Hildebrandt (ralf-hildebrandt)]

sudo apt-get install console-data

and selecting the proper keymap from "full list" worked wonders...

[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

Confirming because something odd is definitely going on here. In my case I'm seeing /etc/default/keyboard having:

XKBMODEL="a4techKB21"
XKBLAYOUT="us,af"
XKBVARIANT=","
XKBOPTIONS="grp_led:scroll"

(I've got UK/gb on both my machines but they both end up with this /etc/default/keyboard) and KDE seems to be matching this us/af choice.

Dave

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

Setting this high because this breaks again on every keyboard-configuration update and also changes the settings of the login screen, so you better not have characters in your username/PW that you can't input from an US keyboard.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Mostly fixed, though I still need to deal with cleaning up systems broken by this bug (which I'll figure out before uploading).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package console-setup - 1.57ubuntu5

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console-setup (1.57ubuntu5) natty; urgency=low

  * Drop misguided Ubuntu-specific code to migrate from console-setup/* to
    keyboard-configuration/* question names. This is already handled on
    upgrade by reading the old /etc/default/console-setup file
    (LP: #698263).
  * console-setup-udeb (<< 1.53) didn't set the seen flag in the installed
    system. Cope with this and avoid asking the layout and variant
    questions again if the default debconf priority is at least high
    (LP: #705883).
  * If we detect the above breakage (upgrading from anything between
    1.57ubuntu1 and 1.57ubuntu4 inclusive, and the XKB* values in
    /etc/default/keyboard differ from the commented-out values in
    /etc/default/console-setup), reset to the commented-out values in
    /etc/default/console-setup.
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:19:42 +0000