Bug 1000565 - Keyboard layout in installation ignored Leap 42.2 Beta 2
Summary: Keyboard layout in installation ignored Leap 42.2 Beta 2
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
: 1001520 1001891 (view as bug list)
Alias: None
Product: openSUSE Distribution
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
Version: Leap 42.2
Hardware: Other Other
: P2 - High : Normal with 1 vote (vote)
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Assignee: Franck Bui
QA Contact: Jiri Srain
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Reported: 2016-09-22 22:53 UTC by Daniel Noga
Modified: 2016-09-30 13:26 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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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. ***