Bug 133074

Summary:	Unable to switch input language from russian to english in firstboot
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Leonid Kanter <leon>
Component:	firstboot	Assignee:	Chris Lumens <clumens>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	5	CC:	ekanter, rstrode, xgl-maint
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Description Leonid Kanter 2004-09-21 14:52:53 UTC

Description of problem:

I selected Russian language for installation and Russian keyboard
layout. Installed OK, but in firstboot I was unable to create user
because it was impossible to switch from russian input to english in
username entry field. username and password must be entered in english
only. Traditional layout switch (l_shift+r_shift) doesn't work in this
screen. I had to skip this step and add used later from console.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

firstboot-1.3.23-1.noarch.rpm

How reproducible:

always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select Russian language, Russian keyboard in Anaconda, install test2
2. reboot, go to "add user" step
3. try to enter username
  
Actual results:

There will be only cyrillic characters in input field, pressing dual
shift doesn't work

Expected results:

Default input language for username and password must be english

Additional info:

In gdm window everything is ok: default is English, dual shift switch
to Russian.

Comment 1 Leonid Kanter 2004-09-21 19:32:31 UTC

ps show following:
 2422 ?        Z      0:00 [setxkbmap] <defunct> 
 2424 ?        Z      0:00 [setxkbmap] <defunct> 
 2425 ?        Z      0:00 [setxkbmap] <defunct> 
 2426 ?        Z      0:00 [setxkbmap] <defunct> 
 2427 ?        S      0:00 /bin/bash /etc/rc5.d/S95firstboot start 
 2429 ?        Z      0:00 [setxkbmap] <defunct> 
 2430 ?        Z      0:00 [setxkbmap] <defunct> 
 2431 ?        Z      0:00 [setxkbmap] <defunct> 
 2432 ?        Z      0:00 [setxkbmap] <defunct> 
 2433 ?        Z      0:00 [setxkbmap] <defunct> 
 2434 ?        Z      0:00 [setxkbmap] <defunct> 
 2435 ?        Z      0:00 [setxkbmap] <defunct> 
 2436 ?        Z      0:00 [setxkbmap] <defunct> 
 2442 ?        S      0:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/firstboot 
 2443 ?        Z      0:00 [setxkbmap] <defunct> 
 2444 ?        Z      0:00 [setxkbmap] <defunct> 
 2445 ?        Z      0:00 [setxkbmap] <defunct> 
 2446 ?        Z      0:00 [setxkbmap] <defunct> 
 2447 ?        Z      0:00 [setxkbmap] <defunct> 
 2448 ?        Z      0:00 [setxkbmap] <defunct> 
 2449 ?        Z      0:00 [setxkbmap] <defunct> 
 2450 ?        S      0:34 /usr/bin/python2
/usr/share/firstboot/firstboot.py 
 2453 ?        S      0:00 --display=:1 
 2458 ?        S      0:01 /usr/libexec/gconfd-2 5

Comment 2 Chris Lumens 2005-10-28 16:05:42 UTC

The many dead setxkbmap processes are an rhgb bug and don't actually have
anything to do with this, though it does look related.  The real problem here is
with the keyboard getting initialized before the firstboot modules are loaded,
but only if firstboot started out of rhgb.  This is fixed in Rawhide and will be
fixed in the next release.

A workaround would be to remove "rhgb" from your boot parameters.

Comment 3 Leonid Kanter 2006-02-01 14:37:50 UTC

This problem is still present in FC5 test2

Comment 4 Chris Lumens 2006-02-10 18:49:27 UTC

This looks related to bug 176002 and bug 173267.  Under rhgb we're using the
system X config with the mode switching XkbOptions added but it's not doing
anything - no light flashing, no different keymap, nothing.  This line appears
in /etc/rhgb/tmp/xorg.log though:

(WW) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-Xkb keymap

Thoughts?

Comment 5 Chris Lumens 2006-02-24 22:47:13 UTC

Please test tomorrow's Rawhide, as this should be working again.