Bug 446564

Summary:	Firstboot does not honour keyboard settings
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Yaakov Nemoy <loupgaroublond>
Component:	firstboot	Assignee:	Chris Lumens <clumens>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	9	CC:	james
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Description Yaakov Nemoy 2008-05-15 03:42:54 UTC

Description of problem: Normally, Fedora uses the keyboard settings from the
installer pervasively.  Firstboot does not honour the settings for alternate
(dvorak) keyboards.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.97-1.fc9


How reproducible:
Not yet tested.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start installing Fedora 9
2. Pick the netherlands locale (nl_NL.UTF-8) - This is only for accuracy, and
reflects what I picked at install time.
3. Pick a dvorak keyboard layout.
4. Continue with the install in the ordinary fashion
5. Observe incorrect (qwerty) keyboard set in firstboot.
  
Actual results:

Already duly noted.

Expected results:

Usage of the dvorak keyboard in the firstboot system.


Additional info:

Comment 1 Mathieu Bridon 2008-05-15 10:03:18 UTC

I had the same problem with the French latin 9 keyboard.

Someone on planet.fedoraproject.org reported it with a belgian keyboard.

So it looks like it's not related to the keyboard mapping you chose.

For me, the only page on firstboot where I noticed it was in the "create user"
page. Quite a problem for setting the password... :S

Comment 2 James 2008-05-15 11:03:21 UTC

Same with UK layout. Selected at install and first boot, but reverts to USA for
users. system-config-keyboard still reports UK layout, but this isn't
percolating through the system...

Comment 3 Fred New 2008-05-15 13:59:57 UTC

The same with installing in English and an Estonian keyboard.  The first
evidence of a problem was at the "create user" page.  The characters produced
weren't Latin.  I'm not worldly enough to say what they were.  I had to skip
creating a new user and also setting an NTP server.  The xorg.conf file matched
what I had from F9 preview release and Gnome worked correctly.

Comment 4 Chris Lumens 2008-05-15 14:55:06 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 446345 ***