Bug#926037: systemd: localectl console keymap configuration delayed

[Michael Biebl]

On 19.12.21 00:56, Floris Bos wrote:

> Yes, your Debian specific stuff in 
> debian/patches/debian/Use-Debian-specific-config-files.patch only seems 
> to set /etc/default/keyboard
> 
> However with other Linux distributions the setting is also instantly 
> applied to console, so that is what me and other users are expecting.
> 
> 
> With other Linux distributions this seems to be done by restarting the 
> systemd-vconsole-setup unit in src/local/localed.c vconsole_reload() :
> 
> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/src/locale/localed.c#L97
> 
> Think that function needs to be patched by whatever is necessary to have 
> the change do take effect on Debian (run "dpkg-reconfigure 
> keyboard-configuration" and "setupcon -k --force" ?)

Currently we disable vconsole via debian/rules, so there is no 
systemd-vconsole-setup.service.

Maybe a fix could be as simple as shipping a symlink
systemd-vconsole-setup.service → keyboard-setup.service ?
Or do we need to restart console-setup.service as well?
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