Package: console-setup-mini Version: 1.44 Severity: important Hi!
I upgraded my Debian testing (squeeze) notebook yesterday and various packages were upgraded (among which several xorg packages). Due to dependencies, console-setup-mini was pulled in, as confirmed by /var/log/aptitude : [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] console-setup-mini During the configuration step, various debconf questions were asked: I tried hard to reply reasonably. Today, I booted up the notebook and logged in on the console (I do not use any graphical login manager) and noticed that the keyboard layout was set to US, while my notebook has an Italian keyboard (buying a notebook with a US keyboard is close to impossible down here in Italy...). I thought I messed up with debconf questions, hence I re-ran: # dpkg-reconfigure console-setup-mini The resulting configuration is shown below and translates into the following conffile: $ grep -v '^#\|^$' /etc/default/console-setup VERBOSE_OUTPUT=no ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]" CHARMAP="UTF-8" CODESET="Lat15" FONTFACE="VGA" FONTSIZE="16" XKBMODEL="pc105" XKBLAYOUT="it" XKBVARIANT="" XKBOPTIONS="" Despite XKBLAYOUT is clearly set to "it", I still get a US keyboard map on the console (X is fine, instead). I even tried to upgrade to console-setup-mini/1.45 from unstable and I even rebooted the notebook, just in case... Nothing changed: still US layout, no matter what! I tried to issue the following command (going from memory, since the last time I needed to *manually* set the keyboard layout was some 7 or 8 years ago!): $ loadkeys it Loading /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/it.kmap.gz Keymap 0: Permission denied Keymap 1: Permission denied Keymap 2: Permission denied KDSKBENT: Operation not permitted loadkeys: could not deallocate keymap 3 As you can see, it didn't work. Please help! I really cannot understand why setting a non-US keyboard layout has suddenly become *so* hard in Debian testing! What's wrong with my notebook? -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages console-setup-mini depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.27 Debian configuration management sy Versions of packages console-setup-mini recommends: ii console-tools 1:0.2.3dbs-66 Linux console and font utilities Versions of packages console-setup-mini suggests: ii lsb-base 3.2-23 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip -- debconf information: * console-setup/variant: Italy console-setup/unsupported_options: true * console-setup/ctrl_alt_bksp: false console-setup/modelcode: pc105 console-setup/use_system_font: console-setup/fontsize: 16 console-setup/unsupported_layout: true console-setup/layoutcode: it console-setup/codesetcode: Lat15 * console-setup/altgr: The default for the keyboard layout * console-setup/codeset: # Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and Turkic languages console-setup/toggle: No toggling * console-setup/fontface: VGA * console-setup/fontsize-text: 16 * console-setup/compose: No compose key debian-installer/console-setup-udeb/title: console-setup/other: console-setup/switch: No temporary switch console-setup/unsupported_config_layout: true * console-setup/charmap: UTF-8 console-setup/optionscode: console-setup/unsupported_config_options: true console-setup/layout: console-setup/variantcode: * console-setup/model: console-setup/fontsize-fb: 16 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org