systemd-firstboot --keymap not working with debian shipped keymaps
Sven Woelfel
woelfel.list at gmail.com
Fri Sep 26 10:11:39 BST 2025
Hello,
tried using systemd-firstboot --keymap=us during a trixie image build.
This fails with a message that the specified keymap is not installed.
I made sure all the required packages for keyboard setup are present (
kbd, console-setup, console-data, keyboard-configuration).
But it seems the <keymap>.kmap.gz files shipped with those packages are
not recognized by localectl and systemd-firstboot.
Furthermore, the debian kbd package gets rid of all keymaps shipped by
upstream kbd. After manually placing the upstream kbd keymaps, which are
of type <keymap>.map, in /usr/share/keymaps both localectl and
systemd-firstboot were able to load the keymaps.
Would it be appropriate to open a bug for this? If so for which package?
With kind regards
Sven Woelfel
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