Well, I've been battling this for the past 8 hours. I'm trying to configure some virtual machines. My intention is to provision some real machines for use in an Ceph/OpenStack cluster. Since it'll probably take a few attempts, I want to automate as much as possible.
As a test, I am doing the deployment with a stack of VMs running under libvirtd/kvm on Gentoo. The actual machines will be headless 99% of the time (the remaining 1% will be for maintenance), so I couldn't give two hoots what keyboard layout it picks — we may even be setting up a serial device server and using serial console in the real deployment. Sadly, I don't see a way to skip this. The set-up is a TFTP dishing out the netboot images and pxelinux configuration scripts. HTTP dishing out preseed files; one per host. I have tried with Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04 and 12.04, all AMD64 architecture. I have tried specifying the keyboard settings in the pre-seed file, and on the kernel command line, I've also tried leaving it out and answering on the console. No dice. Maybe one attempt in 20 works and I get a working installation, but most of the time, install hangs at the "Configuring keyboard-configuration" step. There seems to be no rhyme or reason why it suddenly works, then doesn't. The libvirt-manager CPU monitor seems to indicate activity consistent with a system that's waiting for input. But what? Where? How? It doesn't ask. It doesn't make it clear what it's wanting, or how I'm to provide it. It's not a matter of time either; I left VMs installing earlier this morning about 1AM … 6-7 hours later, I wake up, check on them, they're stuck at this very point. What do I do? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/989396 Title: Package keyboard-configuration post-installation script. Hang on /bin/setupcon --force --save for 10 min then killed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/989396/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
