Dear All,
Thanks for the input from you all so far...
> The liveCD uses "/usr/bin/kbd -s" to prompt for
> keyboard choice, and
> "/usr/bin/kbd -s UK-English" should work as the
> non-interactive command
> to set the keyboard. Is that not working?
I am now chasing several issues of wrong characters...
As far as I have been able to test so far, issuing
pfexec /usr/bin/kbd -s UK-English
does not end up working... I can execute it o.k., no error messages,
but after issuing the ? characters still show as ?
I did it inside a gnome-terminal window - no luck
I did it inside a failsafe login window... no luck
I then did various logging out and back in and so on but no luck...
What I am now doing is trying to get the machine to boot "single
user" and then I'll try from there (I added -s to end of grub kernel line).
What we HAVE found that works, is that when we get the opensolaris
login screen, then if we select "language" from the appropriate button,
and choose UK-English from that,
then continue to log in, after we are then logged in it has then set
things up correct and ? gives ?.
However, ssh sessions to the machine (from other things
where keyboard is fine in local apps) then ? shows as ? in those
ssh sessions.
However, some users will need to log in via ssh and we don't
want to have to tell any local users or xdmcp users that they have to
manually change language to UK-English each... We want the system
default to become UK-English and issuing kbd -s UK-English
is not doing that, even if run with pfexec by our permitted
pfexec user...
I am still waiting for the "single user" boot to complete, its taking ages....
When it does single-user boot (if it does), then I'll try the kbd
command on that and report again...
Dave Price
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