Bug 1023211

According to upstream that's expected if you edit manually vconsole.conf:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/5221

So I'm closing this one, if you don't agree please discuss with upstream directly.

Thanks.

Thanks for reporting the issue to github! I've promised to you some time ago to file a bug for this issue, so I did this in the end. I don't think it's worth discussing this with upstream. This guy won't listen to me and won't accept a fix for that issue either. I'm pretty sure.

Well it depends on how good your arguments are ;)

(In reply to Franck Bui from comment #3)
> Well it depends on how good your arguments are ;)

I seriously doubt this. I thought about workarounding the issue, but failed miserably.

 . $vconsole_conf_file
 if [ ! -z $KEYMAP ]; then
   echo "KEYMAP: $KEYMAP"
   options="$KEYMAP $KEYMAP_TOGGLE"
   ### Linux console and X11 keymap isn't set, if $KEYMAP option for
   ### "localectl set-keymap" is the same as specified in 
   ### vconsole.conf; so # make sure this cannot happen by setting it
  ### to some bogus value first (bnc#1023211)
   # sed -i 's/KEYMAP=.*/KEYMAP=replace_me/g' $vconsole_conf_file
   setkeyboard "$options"
 fi

Issue seems to be, that the value of $KEYMAP inside of localed and in /etc/vconsole.conf are not in sync, i.e. localed is caching this somehow regularly. :-(

(In reply to Stefan Dirsch from comment #4)
> (In reply to Franck Bui from comment #3)
> > Well it depends on how good your arguments are ;)
> 
> I seriously doubt this. I thought about workarounding the issue, but failed
> miserably.
> 
>  . $vconsole_conf_file
>  if [ ! -z $KEYMAP ]; then
>    echo "KEYMAP: $KEYMAP"
>    options="$KEYMAP $KEYMAP_TOGGLE"
>    ### Linux console and X11 keymap isn't set, if $KEYMAP option for
>    ### "localectl set-keymap" is the same as specified in 
>    ### vconsole.conf; so # make sure this cannot happen by setting it
>   ### to some bogus value first (bnc#1023211)
>    # sed -i 's/KEYMAP=.*/KEYMAP=replace_me/g' $vconsole_conf_file
>    setkeyboard "$options"
>  fi
> 
> Issue seems to be, that the value of $KEYMAP inside of localed and in
> /etc/vconsole.conf are not in sync, i.e. localed is caching this somehow
> regularly. :-(

The sed command was the key here. I commented it out afterwards. 

The issue was, that localed apparently thought the previous keymap before the bogus value was still set in vconsole.conf, so it did just nothing, i.e. it also did not overwrite the bogus value in /etc/vconsole.conf. Oh well. So no reliable way to set Linux console and X11 keymap originated from the value
in /etc/vconsole.conf.

Apparently localed expects modifications in vconsole.conf are done by localectl ony.

Why can't this assumption be met in your case ?

Well, previously Linux console and X11 default keymaps were set during displaymanger startup according to the configuration in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard. 
/etc/vconsole.conf looked like the successor to me. Meanwhile it turned out to be
something different, not very useful to me.

Anyway, I'll let the YaST guys to no longer to write /etc/vconsole.conf directly - in case they (still) do - and run "localectl set-x11-keymap <keymap> [...]" instead. And I'll remove this keymap configuration script completely.

Sounds better indeed, thanks Stefan.

This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (1023211) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/454992 Factory / xdm

*** Bug 1023775 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***