On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 12:38:23PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > What do you mean by “fails on real hardware”? That the keyboard layout > is unchanged?
Yes. > Is there anything in /var/log/messages No, nothing out of the ordinary, only the installer pages I went through. > or wherever kmscon > writes its logs? I try with diff --git a/gnu/services/base.scm b/gnu/services/base.scm index 24b3ea785b..0eff24828c 100644 --- a/gnu/services/base.scm +++ b/gnu/services/base.scm @@ -2330,6 +2330,7 @@ This service is not part of @var{%base-services}." (define kmscon-command #~(list + #$(file-append strace "/bin/strace") "-o" "/var/log/kmscon-out" "-f" #$(file-append kmscon "/bin/kmscon") "--login" "--vt" #$virtual-terminal "--no-switchvt" ;Prevent a switch to the virtual terminal. I do cat /var/log/kmscon-out | grep keymap-update I see 231 unlink("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update") = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 231 mknod("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", S_IFIFO|0700) = 0 231 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 17 231 unlink("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update") = 0 231 mknod("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", S_IFIFO|0700) = 0 231 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 20 231 unlink("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update") = 0 231 mknod("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", S_IFIFO|0700) = 0 231 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 23 231 unlink("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update") = 0 231 mknod("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", S_IFIFO|0700) = 0 231 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 26 259 stat("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", {st_mode=S_IFIFO|0700, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 259 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = 19 259 lstat("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", {st_mode=S_IFIFO|0700, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 231 unlink("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update") = 0 231 mknod("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", S_IFIFO|0700) = 0 231 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 26 231 unlink("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update") = 0 231 mknod("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", S_IFIFO|0700) = 0 231 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 18 231 unlink("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update") = 0 231 mknod("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", S_IFIFO|0700) = 0 231 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 21 231 unlink("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update") = 0 231 mknod("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", S_IFIFO|0700) = 0 231 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 24 Now I checked again; after going back to the installer via Ctrl-Alt-F1, I can actually type Amharic. Maybe it just took a long time? But it does not change back to English. I have more lines in kmscon-out by now 231 unlink("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update") = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 231 mknod("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", S_IFIFO|0700) = 0 231 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 17 231 unlink("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update") = 0 231 mknod("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", S_IFIFO|0700) = 0 231 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 20 231 unlink("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update") = 0 231 mknod("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", S_IFIFO|0700) = 0 231 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 23 231 unlink("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update") = 0 231 mknod("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", S_IFIFO|0700) = 0 231 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 26 259 stat("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", {st_mode=S_IFIFO|0700, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 259 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = 19 259 lstat("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", {st_mode=S_IFIFO|0700, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 231 unlink("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update") = 0 231 mknod("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", S_IFIFO|0700) = 0 231 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 26 231 unlink("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update") = 0 231 mknod("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", S_IFIFO|0700) = 0 231 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 18 231 unlink("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update") = 0 231 mknod("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", S_IFIFO|0700) = 0 231 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 21 231 unlink("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update") = 0 231 mknod("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", S_IFIFO|0700) = 0 231 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 24 259 stat("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", {st_mode=S_IFIFO|0700, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 259 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = 19 259 lstat("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", {st_mode=S_IFIFO|0700, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 231 unlink("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update") = 0 231 mknod("/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", S_IFIFO|0700) = 0 231 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/kmscon-231-keymap-update", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 24 It has still not gone back to English layout (except when I press Alt+Shift). Regards, Florian