Bug 460692

Summary:	Keymap selection is ignored in the 2012.12 LiveDVD ("End of World Edition") bootup process
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	Martin Andersen <martin.andersen>
Component:	LiveCD/DVD/USB	Assignee:	Team Anniversary <ten>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	Adrian.Bassett, eras, martin.andersen, throw_away_2002
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
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Description Martin Andersen 2013-03-07 14:16:13 UTC

[Note: 'version' did not allow one to select anything newer than 2008.0_beta2]


Keymap selection is not being honored in the LiveDVD–problem is reproducible every time. Even when passing it as a boot option it still reverts to the U.S layout. What is curious though is that it actually is displaying 'Setting keymap to <whatever>' when it boots, but it has no effect. I am testing with a Norwegian keymap btw. (27/NO)

Tested on a virtual terminal and on X (which I supposed _should_ inherit whatever the keymap initially was set to)

It is a pretty nifty live-DVD; so it is unfortunate that such basic functionality isn't working.

When manually editing /etc/conf.d/keymap and restarting this works as intended, but obviously the way the liveDVD is made one loses the (pre-filled-out) login details in kdm (or is it SliM?) when the X server is restarted.

Comment 1 Martin Andersen 2013-03-19 10:22:13 UTC

Are anyone reading these bug reports? This issue in particular should be a trivial thing to fix.

Comment 2 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) Gentoo Infrastructure

2013-04-28 22:23:53 UTC

*** Bug 467434 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Manuel Ullmann 2013-07-22 17:11:42 UTC

I can confirm this. I'm using LiveDVD-20121221. When keymaps is started, it switches back to us-layout. Before that typing into the messages indicate a correctly set keymap.

Comment 4 Fernando (likewhoa) 2016-07-04 03:19:40 UTC

This is fixed in latest release.