Bug#833849: systemd: localed fails to start if /etc/default/keyboard is missing

[Felipe Sateler]

Control: tags -1 pending

On 9 August 2016 at 08:07, Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Package: systemd
> Version: 231-1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
>
> I'm using systemd on an embedded Debian derivative that doesn't routinely
> populate /etc/default/keyboard (our target devices don't normally have
> keyboards, so it would be meaningless). On this system, localed doesn't
> start when activated via D-Bus:
>
>     systemd-localed[9146]: Failed to read locale data: No such file or directory
>
> This appears to be because the upstream code to load a Red Hat-specific
> X11 keyboard configuration file tolerates it not existing, but the
> Debian patch to load /etc/default/keyboard instead does not tolerate
> ENOENT.
>
> To fix this, I applied the patch
> 0001-x11_read_data-tolerate-absence-of-etc-default-keyboa.patch
> (this is a forward-port to 231, the one I initially used was for an
> earlier systemd version and touched the same code in a different file)
> just after Use-Debian-specific-config-files.patch in the patch
> series, then squashed it into that commit to get the attached
> 0001-Use-Debian-specific-config-files.patch (again, this is a
> forward-port).
>
> I'm not attaching a proposed debdiff because the resulting diff between
> diffs is basically impossible to review :-)

Thanks for the patch.This makes a lot of sense, especially because
ENOENT is tolerated everywhere in that file. I have applied this to
git with the following commit message attributed to you:

    localed: tolerate absence of /etc/default/keyboard

    The debian-specific patch to read Debian config files was not tolerating
    the absence of /etc/default/keyboard. This causes systemd-localed to
    fail to start on systems where that file isn't populated (like embedded
    systems without keyboards).

    Closes: #833849




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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler