Bug 433016

Summary:	ncurses UI breaks console keyboard
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1	Reporter:	Jiří Suchomel <jsuchome>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Gabriele Mohr <gs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	gs, mmarek
Version:	Beta 2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
Whiteboard:	#8735
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Description Jiří Suchomel 2008-10-07 12:27:19 UTC

During installation in Czech, YaST sets console keyboard using "loadkeys cz-us-qwertz.map.gz". This would work correctly (it works if I call it manually), but YaST calls also UI::SetKeyboard (). UI::SetKeyboard calls initConsoleKeyboard, which calls this command:

"/bin/dumpkeys | /bin/loadkeys --unicode"

after this, the keyboard layout is broken.

I assume it worked before, but now there were some changes in console keyboard handling, so the call in initConsoleKeyboard is probably obsolete. Michal, could you confirm?

Comment 1 Michal Marek 2008-10-09 08:46:42 UTC

Yes, a variant of this line was removed from the kbd init script recently, please also remove it from YaST.

Comment 2 Gabriele Mohr 2008-10-09 08:53:59 UTC

Stefan, could you please have a look (I'am not at the office today and tomorrow).

Comment 3 Gabriele Mohr 2008-10-14 11:11:26 UTC

I will remove the line "/bin/dumpkeys | /bin/loadkeys --unicode" from yast2-ncurses. This means NCApplication::initConsoleKeyboard() will be a NOOP. Are there any others commands to call instead? 
Why was the command removed from the kbd init script ?(to have the information available as comment in yast2-ncurses).

Comment 4 Michal Marek 2008-10-14 12:42:37 UTC

See bug 367801 comment 18 and other comments by jbohac.

Comment 5 Gabriele Mohr 2008-10-16 09:06:09 UTC

The bug is fixed in yast2-ncurses-2.17.10.