old-style loadkeys invocations no longer work
Bug #83487 reported by
Adrian Bridgett
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: console-setup
Using Feisty beta2 (x86-64) I used "loadkeys uk" to change my keyboard settings. This reports "cannot open file uk". Strace()ing it shows that it's looking in /usr/share/keymaps/ which is empty as console-data is not installed.
I selected the "failsafe graphics" boot option (which failed, but that might be a vga card issue) - so it might be prompting me to select a keyboard, I don't know.
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Unfortunately it isn't quite as simple as that with console-setup yet. The easiest approaches right now are either to edit /etc/default/ console- setup and run setupcon, or to run 'ckbcomp -model pc105 gb | eval loadkeys'. I do agree that a simpler wrapper should exist, though, possibly via loadkeys for compatibility. Not sure how to deal with keymap names now being expressed in terms of X though.