Bug 1000565

Summary:	Keyboard layout in installation ignored Leap 42.2 Beta 2
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Distribution	Reporter:	Daniel Noga <noga.dany>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Franck Bui <fbui>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P2 - High	CC:	astieger, axel.braun, forgotten_78VZKcLim2, lnussel, mail, mrmazda, opensuse.lietuviu.kalba, sndirsch, st-malcolm.moore
Version:	Leap 42.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Daniel Noga 2016-09-22 22:53:46 UTC

1) Download openSUSE Leap 42.2 Beta 2
2) Start installation
3) On first installation page change Keyboard Layout
4) Type in Keyboard Test input

Expected: Type with selected keyboard layout

Actual: Type with english qwerty - Keyboard layout is ignored

Comment 1 malcolm moore 2016-09-23 07:30:49 UTC

I have the same  - cannot get UK layout even though that
was selected during install. After install you also cannot
change it via YaST - it's always US

Comment 2 Ludwig Nussel 2016-09-23 08:28:17 UTC

probably fallout of the kbd update. Franck, is this covered by the pending systemd submission?

Comment 3 Ludwig Nussel 2016-09-23 08:29:33 UTC

In my case
/etc/vconsole.conf has
KEYMAP=de-nodeadkeys

localctl says
...
 VC Keymap: de-nodeadkeys
X11 Keymap: us

Comment 4 Stefan Dirsch 2016-09-23 08:34:45 UTC

I'm pretty sure it is. localectl cannot convert console keyboard layouts like
"de-nodeadkeys" to a X11 layout without a mapping table right now. And the mapping table is missing in Beta2.

Comment 5 Franck Bui 2016-09-23 08:36:21 UTC

(In reply to Ludwig Nussel from comment #2)
> probably fallout of the kbd update. Franck, is this covered by the pending
> systemd submission?

I'm not sure...

If the keyboard layout doesn't change during *installation*, that might be another issue.

In your case and Malcom's one, it seems that the layout isn't taken into account after rebooting. In that case I would say it's probably covered by the upcoming change.

Comment 6 Stefan Dirsch 2016-09-23 08:38:34 UTC

xkbctrl is also affected by this. It's been used by YaST to map console keyboard layout to X11 keyboard layout. So installation is also affected.

Comment 7 Ludwig Nussel 2016-09-23 09:28:13 UTC

the sp2 submission doesn't fix it for me

Comment 8 Ludwig Nussel 2016-09-23 09:47:44 UTC

I had to remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf and reboot, then it worked. is that expected? Any other fix after installing the updated package?

Comment 9 Stefan Dirsch 2016-09-23 10:00:19 UTC

Ludwig, can I login to such a machine? What happens when you run /etc/X11/xdm/keytable?

Comment 10 Stefan Dirsch 2016-09-23 10:59:13 UTC

We figured out that 

  localectl set-keymap <layout>

doesn't rewrite /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf, if KEYMAP value in /etc/vconsole.conf hasn't been changed since.

Comment 11 Ludwig Nussel 2016-09-23 14:55:16 UTC

Update is on the way. Confirmed working:

# zypper ar -cf obs://openSUSE:Maintenance:5647/openSUSE_Leap_42.2_Update systemd_update
# zypper patch; zypper patch
# rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf
# reboot

Comment 12 Felix Miata 2016-09-28 06:26:31 UTC

Noting here that with the 2016-09-20 (latest available, but older than this bug's "fixed" comment) kernel/initrd starting an HTTP installation with Grub and lang=en and keytable=us on cmdline produces an initial GUI/YaST@ screen showing Language English (US) with Keyboard Layout Traditional Chinese.

Comment 13 Andreas Stieger 2016-09-28 07:38:54 UTC

*** Bug 1001520 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14 Ludwig Nussel 2016-09-30 13:26:21 UTC

*** Bug 1001891 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***