Bug 490706 – sys-apps/kbd - Shift key does not work on text console with /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz/cz.map.gz

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE

[Description Marian Kyral 2013-11-07 17:17:49 UTC]

Most of the time I'm working in KDE, but from sometimes I want to work in text console (CTRL+ALT+F1-F6). Recently I was not able to login to the shell. I'm using upper case letters in my password and the Shift key does not work. Shift + any letter does nothing. I can't enter upper case letters, I can't enter special chars like / ? * " :. I can't work in shell and vim.

I'm not sure what is wrong and how long it does not work. My /etc/conf.f/keymaps file is untouched for the long time and it worked well in past.

I have the same problem on all my three gentoo boxes and I've found in forum, that the Gentoo install CD is also affected: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7435434.html#7435434

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# cat /etc/conf.d/keymaps
# Use KEYMAP to specify the default console keymap.  There is a complete tree
# of keymaps in /usr/share/keymaps to choose from.
keymap="-u /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz/cz.map.gz"

# Should we first load the 'windowkeys' console keymap?  Most x86 users will
# say "yes" here.  Note that non-x86 users should leave it as "no".
windowkeys="YES"

# The maps to load for extended keyboards.  Most users will leave this as is.
extended_keymaps=""
#extended_keymaps="backspace keypad euro2"

# Tell dumpkeys(1) to interpret character action codes to be
# from the specified character set.
# This only matters if you set unicode="yes" in /etc/rc.conf.
# For a list of valid sets, run `dumpkeys --help`
#dumpkeys_charset=""
dumpkeys_charset="iso-8859-2"

# Some fonts map AltGr-E to the currency symbol ¤ instead of the Euro €
# To fix this, set to "yes"
fix_euro="NO"
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# emerge --info
Portage 2.2.7 (default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.8.1, glibc-2.17, 3.11.5-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.11.5-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_P8400_@_2.26GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem:     3981352 total,    611860 free
KiB Swap:    4000180 total,   4000180 free
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 17:15:01 +0000
ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.2
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p45
dev-java/java-config:     2.2.0
dev-lang/python:          2.7.5-r4, 3.2.5-r3, 3.3.2-r2
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.12::kde
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.28
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.2
sys-apps/openrc:          0.12.4
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.6-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13, 2.69
sys-devel/automake:       1.10.3, 1.11.6, 1.12.6, 1.14
sys-devel/binutils:       2.23.2
sys-devel/gcc:            4.8.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.8
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.2
sys-devel/make:           3.82-r4
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.11 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.17
Repositories: gentoo kde sunrise gentoo-zh overlay
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/mnt/wind/data/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--keep-going"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/gentoo/ rsync://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirror.dkm.cz/pub/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.mirror.dkm.cz/pub/gentoo/ rsync://gentoo.mirror.dkm.cz/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirror.web4u.cz/ ftp://gentoo.mirror.web4u.cz/"
LANG="cs_CZ.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--quiet"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/kde /var/lib/layman/sunrise /var/lib/layman/gentoo-zh /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="7zip X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus declarative dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif faad fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gif git gpm gstreamer iconv icu imagemagick ipv6 jpeg jpeg2k kde kde4 kipi lame lcms ldap libnotify logrotate lzma lzo mad matroska mmx mmxext mng modules mozilla mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer msql mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf phonon plasma png policykit ppds python qt3support qt4 quicktime raw readline samba sdl semantic-desktop session smp spell sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification subversion svg tcpd theora threads thumbnail thunderbird tiff truetype udev udisks unicode unzip upower usb vim-syntax vorbis webkit wmf wmp wxwidgets x264 xcb xcomposite xine xinerama xml xscreensaver xv xvid zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="cs" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby20" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, USE_PYTHON

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-11-08 18:07:43 UTC]

(In reply to Marian Kyral from comment #0)
> keymap="-u /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz/cz.map.gz"

What happens if you set it to the default? What happens if you set it to cz-us-qwertz.map.gz?

[Comment 2 Marian Kyral 2013-11-11 17:04:52 UTC]

(In reply to Jeroen Roovers from comment #1)
> (In reply to Marian Kyral from comment #0)
> > keymap="-u /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz/cz.map.gz"
> 
> What happens if you set it to the default? What happens if you set it to
> cz-us-qwertz.map.gz?

What is default? I've tested cz-us-qwertz.map.gz and Shift key works. But I'm not able to write accents. It prints some ugly square for all accent character.

[Comment 3 Sam James 2022-06-03 01:29:54 UTC]

Is this still an issue?

[Comment 4 Marian Kyral 2022-06-03 06:42:42 UTC]

No. Looks like it was fixed long time ago. I totally forgot about this issue.