Bug#1038762: [src:systemd]: login (gnome) uses wrong keyboard layout

[Michael Biebl]

Am 21.06.23 um 03:02 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> Am 21.06.23 um 02:34 schrieb Lyndon Brown:
>> The latest package update (to unstable) has broken login keyboard-
>> layout support. I'm marking this as critical due to the chaotic
>> potential for locking many users out of their accounts / systems, some
>> of whom unlike myself may have no clue what's wrong and how to get
>> around it, if they can.
> 
> Afaics, this only affects gdm, which directly queries localed, which no 
> longer reports the keymap state:
> 
> 
> $ localectl
> System Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8
>      VC Keymap: (unset)
>     X11 Layout: (unset)
> 
> This is a result of
> https://salsa.debian.org/systemd-team/systemd/-/commit/8d0405b0cfb9c84791da5b8f7288453e23624acf

Hm, actually, it seems to be the result of dropping
debian/patches/debian/Use-Debian-specific-config-files.patch

> See the discussion in 
> https://salsa.debian.org/systemd-team/systemd/-/merge_requests/189

As a quick/temporary workaround, you can run

ln -s /etc/default/keyboard /etc/vconsole.conf


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