Bug 706675

Summary: Keyboard language can be selected too late in installation process
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Dirk Gfroerer <dirk.gfroerer>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Martin Gracik <mgracik>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Release Test Team <release-test-team>
Severity: low Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 6.1CC: atodorov, dmach, rwilliam
Target Milestone: rc   
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: anaconda-13.21.132-1 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2011-12-06 10:35:50 UTC Type: ---
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Description Dirk Gfroerer 2011-05-22 09:16:58 UTC 
Description of problem:
Boot a system from the rhel-workstation-6.1-x86_64-boot.iso. Start the installation process. Networking, installation source need to be entered before the keyboard language can be chosen - which is done at the beginning of stage2.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
6.1

How reproducible:
every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot from rhel-workstation-6.1-x86_64-boot.iso with a machine with a non US keyboard.
2. Choose e.g. installation from URL.
3. Try to enter an URL. /, :, etc. are not what they use to be on your non US keyboard.
  
Actual results:
You have to search for the characters on your keyboard.

Expected results:
Keyboard layout is honoured.
Comment 2 Chris Lumens 2011-05-23 16:55:46 UTC 
Please attach your /tmp/anaconda.log to this bug so I can see what steps you took and what command line parameters you specified.  Thanks.
Comment 3 Dirk Gfroerer 2011-05-23 19:47:03 UTC 
There's no /tmp/anaconda.log on the machine. I just do have a
/root/anaconda-ks.cfg and
/root/install.log
/root/install.log.syslog

Interested in any of these?

I just inserted the above mentioned CD and booted the system up. Then had to enter my installation information within the text mode part of the installer. Then after stage2 (within the graphical section) I could choose my installation language and keyboard layout.
Comment 4 Chris Lumens 2011-05-23 20:08:03 UTC 
At the end of installation, you'll find it as /var/log/anaconda.log.
Comment 5 Dirk Gfroerer 2011-05-24 05:03:52 UTC 
Created attachment 500546 [details]
Anaconda log file

Anaconda log file from /var/log/anaconda.log as requested.
Comment 6 RHEL Program Management 2011-06-03 21:01:07 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion
in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has 
requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed 
products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release.
Comment 11 Alexander Todorov 2011-08-17 15:09:05 UTC 
In anaconda-13.21.128 if you boot with boot.iso loader will ask for language and keyboard before configuring install source and network which fixes this bug. 

However in stage2 anaconda will prompt once more for language and keyboard information as the first 2 steps. IMHO this should not happen since those are already selected. 

Moving back to ASSIGNED.
Comment 13 Alexander Todorov 2011-08-26 12:24:06 UTC 
With anaconda-13.21.136 keyboard/language selection only happens in loader when booting from boot.iso. Moving to VERIFIED.
Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2011-12-06 10:35:50 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1565.html