Unsupported settings in configuration file /etc/default/console-setup

[Savvas Radevic]

Binary package hint: console-setup

$ apt-cache policy console-setup
console-setup:
  Installed: 1.28ubuntu8
  Candidate: 1.28ubuntu8
  Version table:
 *** 1.28ubuntu8 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

It showed an error (during "sudo aptitude safe-upgrade") that the format is unsupported for console-setup.

$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall console-setup
(pops up a dialog in terminal)

 ┌───────────────────────┤ Configuring console-setup ├───────────────────────┐
 │ │
 │ Unsupported settings in configuration file │
 │ │
 │ The configuration file /etc/default/console-setup specifies a keyboard │
 │ layout and variant that are not supported by the configuration program. │
 │ Because of that, no questions about the keyboard layout will be asked │
 │ and your current configuration will be preserved. │

The installation continues fine, but is it a bug?

[[e-mail] (j.scott.gwin)]

Thank you for reporting this, it helps make Ubuntu better. Confirmed.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

From the changelog for console-setup 1.24:

  * Removed debconf support for grp:alts_toggle, grp:ctrls_toggle,
    grp:shifts_toggle, grp:shift_caps_toggle as it is impossible to
    support them on the console.

Did you put the grp:alts_toggle option in place yourself, or did something put it there for you? (grp:alt_shift_toggle is normal.)

[Savvas Radevic (medigeek)]

I didn't put it in myself, this was a clean install of jaunty alpha 5.
I think it was done like this:
- System > Preferences > Keyboard > Layouts
- Clicked "Layout options" .
- Keys to change layout > "Alt+Shift" and "Both Alt keys together" are the only ones checked
- Clicked "Close" and "Apply System-wide"

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Ah, so you did apply it yourself :-) Not by editing the file, but by using the GNOME keyboard layout configuration tool. I just wanted to clarify whether the installer had set it up like that for you, in which case migration would be more urgent.

[Savvas Radevic (medigeek)]

Hehe - well, in that case, I did put it in using that "apply system-wide"!
It's nothing that should worry the users in the future right?

[Paolo Benvenuto (donpaolo)]

I have the same bug in upgrading, the only non-usual thing I did is to use two keyboard layouts, italian and spanish.

I didn't change nothing in my configuration about the shortcut that change the keyboard layout

My /etc/default/console-setup :

# A configuration file for setupcon

# Change to "yes" and setupcon will explain what is being doing
VERBOSE_OUTPUT=no

# Setup these consoles. Most people do not need to change this.
ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]"

# Put here your encoding. Valid charmaps are: UTF-8 ARMSCII-8 CP1251
# CP1255 CP1256 GEORGIAN-ACADEMY GEORGIAN-PS IBM1133 ISIRI-3342
# ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-2 ISO-8859-3 ISO-8859-4 ISO-8859-5 ISO-8859-6
# ISO-8859-7 ISO-8859-8 ISO-8859-9 ISO-8859-10 ISO-8859-11 ISO-8859-13
# ISO-8859-14 ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-16 KOI8-R KOI8-U TIS-620 VISCII
CHARMAP="UTF-8"

# The codeset determines which symbols are supported by the font.
# Valid codesets are: Arabic Armenian CyrAsia CyrKoi CyrSlav Ethiopian
# Georgian Greek Hebrew Lao Lat15 Lat2 Lat38 Lat7 Thai Uni1 Uni2 Uni3
# Vietnamese. Read README.fonts for explanation.
CODESET="Uni1"

# Valid font faces are: VGA (sizes 8, 14 and 16), Terminus (sizes
# 12x6, 14, 16, 20x10, 24x12, 28x14 and 32x16), TerminusBold (sizes
# 14, 16, 20x10, 24x12, 28x14 and 32x16), TerminusBoldVGA (sizes 14
# and 16), Fixed (sizes 13, 14, 15, 16 and 18), Goha (sizes 12, 14 and
# 16), GohaClassic (sizes 12, 14 and 16).
FONTFACE="Fixed"
FONTSIZE="16"

# You can also directly specify nonstandard font and ACM to load:
# FONT=/usr/local/share/funnyfonts/sarge16.psf
# ACM=/usr/local/share/consoletrans/my_special_encoding.acm

# The following variables describe your keyboard and can have the same
# values as the XkbModel, XkbLayout, XkbVariant and XkbOptions options
# in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="es"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS="grp:alts_toggle"

# Do not update the following md5 sum if you change
# /etc/console-setup/boottime.kmap.gz and Debconf will not overwrite
# your custom keymap. Do not update it even if you want to make
# Debconf overwrite it. Instead simply specify the empty string as
# a md5 sum.

BOOTTIME_KMAP_MD5="aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
(END)