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Bug 2959

Summary:	UK keyboard not configureable
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	dutton
Component:	kbd	Assignee:	David Lawrence <dkl>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.0	CC:	clemons
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description dutton 1999-05-21 21:38:49 UTC

in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard I have the line
KEYTABLE=uk
This fails to map to a UK keyboard. (not in X)
Also X key maps are OK

the "|" (pipe) symbol comes out as a ">"

The "|" (pipe) symbol is found on the shift-# (shift-hash)
key

Comment 1 clemons 1999-06-18 14:36:59 UTC

I'm having this problem also, but only on systems that I've upgraded
from 5.2.  With fresh installs the key mapping is correct.

Comment 2 Michael K. Johnson 1999-07-29 21:43:59 UTC

clemons.ac.uk, could you see if there is a difference in
the KEYTABLE entry in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard on your 5.2 vs. 6.0
systems?  There is only one uk keytable installed on a 6.0 system.
Thanks!

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 1999-08-19 21:48:59 UTC

closed, lack of input

Comment 4 dutton 1999-08-19 22:19:59 UTC

Has anyone worked out why the keytable fails yet?
I am still waiting for a solution.
Is there any extra info I can supply?
I upgraded from 5.0 to 5.2 to 6.0
Please just tell me what file is missing/wrongly configured.

Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 1999-08-20 16:32:59 UTC

1) does this happen only in X, or also at the console?
2) if it happens in both, what happens if you type 'loadkeys uk'?

Comment 6 dutton 1999-08-20 18:40:59 UTC

I found out what has gone wrong.
I ran "rpm --verify -a" after reading other bug lists, and found that
the upgrade from 5.2 to 6.0 does not upgrade all the files properly,
some files are deleted and not replaced.
After searching the output, I found that the following files were
missing, together with 100s more.
/etc/rc.d/rc2.d/S75keytable
/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S75keytable
/etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S75keytable
Once I did a symbolic link from /etc/rc.d/init.d/keytable to these
files and rebooted, all is now fine.
1) X in fine, console bad.
2) loadkeys uk works fine.
Obviously, some files got deleted during the upgrade.
Has REDHAT found out which packages they are, and told us users how
to fix them? If so, can someone please tell me.

Comment 7 Bill Nottingham 1999-08-20 20:53:59 UTC

OK, you ran into an RPM problem. The 'kbd' package was replaced
with the console-tools package, however, this  (because of an
RPM problem) caused the keytable links to be removed.

Once they were remade, is the keyboard working OK in the console?

Comment 8 Jeff Johnson 1999-08-31 21:45:59 UTC

The packages are fine, the problem was in rpm itself. Install the
errata rpm-3.0.2 release, and reinstall the rpm's with missing files.
Please reopen this bug if the above does not remedy your problem.