[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#353525: console-setup: support for "space delimited list of virtual consoles" is broken, only one argument is allowed

[Jonas Meurer]

Package: console-setup
Version: 1.5
Severity: important

hello,

the last debconf question of console-setup asks to give a "space
delimited list of virtual consoles you use".
Unfortunately, this "space delimited list" is not supported.

if i give more than one argument, for example "/dev/tty1 /dev/tty2", the
final console font and keymap setup breaks:

awk: cmd. line:1: /^ *ACTIVE_CONSOLES=/ { print "ACTIVE_CONSOLES=\"/dev/tty1
awk: cmd. line:1:                               ^ unterminated string

currently only one argument, just as /dev/tty[1-6] is supported.

in my environment, i would like to have configured all tty from 1 to 12,
except tty7 (x11).

this is not possible with the current console-setup package.

also, i have only 9 ttys left currently, though i have 12 configured in
/etc/inittab. i know that i had 12 virtual consoles in the past.
could this be caused by console-setup too?

...
 jonas

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-5-amd64-resivo
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii  console-terminus              4.16-3     Fixed-width fonts for fast reading
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.4.70     Debian configuration management sy

Versions of packages console-setup recommends:
ii  kbd                           1.12-13    Linux console font and keytable ut

-- debconf information:
* console-setup/variant: Germany - Eliminate dead keys
  console-setup/modelcode: pc105
  console-setup/fontsize: 14
  console-setup/layoutcode: de
  console-setup/dont_ask_layout:
* console-setup/altgr: Right Alt
* console-setup/ttys: /dev/tty[1-6]
* console-setup/codeset: Uni3
  console-setup/toggle: No toggling
* console-setup/fontface: TerminusBold
* console-setup/fontsize-text: 14
* console-setup/compose: No compose key
  console-setup/switch: No temporary switch
* console-setup/charmap: UTF-8
  console-setup/optionscode: lv3:ralt_switch
* console-setup/layout: Germany
  console-setup/variantcode: nodeadkeys
* console-setup/model: Generic 105-key (Intl) PC
* console-setup/fontsize-fb: 14