Reconfiguring keyboard layout for TTYs only works after manually invoking setupcon
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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console-setup (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Colin Watson |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: console-setup
Hello,
also a report from testing of Natty Alpha 2 images (amd64).
If one wants to reconfigure his keyboard layout on system consoles (TTYs), the way to this is in Natty is obviously via
dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-
Now the bug is that the keyboard layout remains unchanged afterwards, even after rebooting the system.
I found out accidently that you need to run 'sudo setupcon' to activate the new layout.
So a proposed fix for this issue would be to execute setupcon automatically after 'dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-layout' was run.
Kind regards,
Jan
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: keyboard-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-1-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Feb 4 13:30:14 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110202)
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: console-setup
tags: | added: iso-testing |
Changed in console-setup (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Colin Watson (cjwatson) |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
The odd thing is that we already do run setupcon (unless plymouth is
still running, which I suppose is possible). In any case, that wouldn't
be sufficient to explain why it would remain unchanged after rebooting,
because setupcon doesn't do anything that persists across reboots. I
imagine that the fragile udev rules to do this have broken again.