Bug 643538

Summary:	kbd: "Loading keymap unknown keysym 'cyrillic_small_letter_short_i" on LiveCD boot
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.4	Reporter:	Forgotten User JoZGrGEMhM <forgotten_JoZGrGEMhM>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P3 - Medium	CC:	av.linux.dev, lazy.kent
Version:	Factory
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Other
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Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
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Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	713331
Attachments:	Screenshot from openSUSE 12.1 M3

Description Forgotten User JoZGrGEMhM 2010-10-04 14:54:51 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; ru; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 SUSE/3.6.10-3.4 Firefox/3.6.10

kbd failed to start on KDE LiveCD boot with message 

Loading keymap unknown keysym 'cyrillic_small_letter_short_i'

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Booot KDE LiveCD 11.4 M2 with Russian language selected in booloader 
2. When it boots see boot messages in text terminal (Ctrl+Alt+F1)
3. Try to restart kbd.
Actual Results:  
kbd failed to start on boot, so there is no cyrillic fonts loaded in text terminal -> ureadable messages. When kbd restarted from text terminal fonts are loaded fine and all works ok.

Expected Results:  
kbd should starts fine on boot

Comment 1 Anna Maresova 2010-10-19 13:07:42 UTC

Could you please attach kbd output when it fails to start?

Comment 2 Forgotten User JoZGrGEMhM 2010-10-19 14:00:30 UTC

Where to get it? Only kbd message I can see it message on boot posted on initial report

> Loading keymap unknown keysym 'cyrillic_small_letter_short_i'

it appear's on Alt+Ctrl+F1 tty

Comment 3 Andrey Vostrikov 2010-11-08 06:32:52 UTC

This issue also seen in Suse 10.4 milestone 3, while booting and Russian is selected as system language.

suse:~> uname -a
Linux suse.arty 2.6.36-90-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2010-10-29 13:47:35 +0200 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

suse:~> loadkeys --version
loadkeys from kbd 1.15.2

Could be reproducible by next command:

suse:~> sudo loadkeys /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/ruwin_alt-UTF-8.map.gz 
Loading /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/ruwin_alt-UTF-8.map.gz
unknown keysym 'cyrillic_small_letter_short_i'
loadkeys: /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/ruwin_alt-UTF-8.map.gz:109: addkey called with bad keycode -1

The reason is that by default loadkeys uses byte conversion, hence the mapping is not found for cyrillic characters in ksyms.c::ksymtocode(), which uses iso-8859-5 only in unicode conversion.

Could be solved by running loadkeys with "-u":
suse:~> sudo loadkeys -u /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/ruwin_alt-UTF-8.map.gz 
Loading /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/ruwin_alt-UTF-8.map.gz

I think -u could be added in the kbd script to eliminate the problem on boot.

Comment 4 Forgotten User JoZGrGEMhM 2010-11-30 02:17:02 UTC

Milestone 4 has this problem too

Comment 5 Anna Maresova 2010-12-16 12:37:15 UTC

*** Bug 655816 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Kyrill Detinov 2011-08-18 17:22:15 UTC

The bug is still present in 11.4 and Factory.
Russian users can't switch keyboard layout:
http://unixforum.org/index.php?showtopic=127600

Comment 8 Kyrill Detinov 2011-08-19 07:28:11 UTC

Created attachment 446547 [details]
Screenshot from openSUSE 12.1 M3

Here is a screenshot made in openSUSE Factory.

Comment 9 Forgotten User JoZGrGEMhM 2011-08-21 15:01:20 UTC

fix suggested in bnc#713331 (openSUSE 11.2 m3 bug)

Comment 10 Stanislav Brabec 2011-12-02 17:30:36 UTC

As this bug is apparently the same as 713331 (reported later), marking it as a duplicate. Later bug has more comments.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 713331 ***