Bug 1146
| Summary: | Various problems with /etc/rc.d/init.d/keytables | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Marc MERLIN <marc_soft> |
| Component: | kbd | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 5.2 | CC: | rvokal |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 1999-04-06 16:19:02 UTC | Type: | --- |
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fixed in console-tools-*-6, initscripts-3.99-1. |
Gatewaying old bug to bugzilla: 1) English/Spelling # This must be executed *after* /usr is mounted. -# This means is /usr is NFS-mounted, it needs to +# This means that if /usr is NFS-mounted, it needs to # run after networking and NFS mounts are up. 2) It doesn't touch the lock file and gets needlessly relaunched at each runlevel @@ -20,12 +20,14 @@ start) # Load the proper keymap echo -n "Loading keymap: " + touch /var/lock/subsys/keytable . /etc/sysconfig/keyboard if [ ${KEYTABLE:-bogus} != "bogus" ]; then loadkeys $KEYTABLE fi ;; stop) + rm /var/lock/subsys/keytable ;; restart|reload) $0 start 3) The script is not run when booting in single user mode It's not cool for all the people who don't use qwerty keyboards (been there, done that) 4) But even better (and that's the solution I implemented on my system): The ideal fix is that whatever keymap is selected during the install should be copied somewhere in /etc/sysconfig and loaded by rc.sysinit because if you have an fsck problem, you're forced to fix the problem with the wrong keymap, and that includes typing the root password (very frustrating).