[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#969965: text installer: unable to switch keyboard layouts - libkeymap.so.1 missing

[Holger Wansing]

Control: reopen -1

Switching keyboard in the text installer still fails!
So reopening this bug.

While debugging this, I executed /bin/setupcon in terminal (this is done by the 
installer in "Configure the keyboard" step).

With --verbose option, I then get

on /dev/tty1 executing printf.
on /dev/tty2 executing printf.
on /dev/tty3 executing printf.
on /dev/tty4 executing printf.
on /dev/tty5 executing printf.
on /dev/tty6 executing printf.
on /dev/tty1 executing kbd_mode -u.
on /dev/tty2 executing kbd_mode -u.
on /dev/tty3 executing kbd_mode -u.
on /dev/tty4 executing kbd_mode -u.
on /dev/tty5 executing kbd_mode -u.
on /dev/tty6 executing kbd_mode -u.
executing loadkeys /tmp/tmpbd.MBbsf
loadkeys: error while loading shared libraries: libkeymap.so.1: cannot open
shared object file. No such file or directory

Thus keymap is not set. Please fix loadkeys in udeb.



@installer-team: This error is only displayed, when using --verbose option,
which is normally not set when running setupcon inside the installer.
Without --verbose it just says

"setupcon: gzip is not accessible. Will not save cached keyboard map."

which seems an uncritical message.

So, maybe we should set --verbose option by default, to un-hide such
errors?


Holger


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