Bug 752669

Summary: KeyError: 'us-ctrl_capslock'
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Dan Krejsa <dan.krejsa>
Component: system-config-keyboardAssignee: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 16CC: itamar, jonathan, lkundrak, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Description Dan Krejsa 2011-11-10 04:33:20 UTC 
libreport version: 2.0.6
executable:     /usr/bin/python
hashmarkername: anaconda
kernel:         3.1.0-7.fc16.i686
product:        Fedora
reason:         KeyError: 'us-ctrl_capslock'
time:           Thu Nov 10 04:31:35 2011
version:        16

anaconda-tb-L7e4Ba: Text file, 267592 bytes

description:
:The following was filed automatically by anaconda:
:anaconda 16.25 exception report
:Traceback (most recent call first):
:  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/system_config_keyboard/keyboard.py", line 81, in set
:    kb = self.modelDict[keytable]
:  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/kickstart.py", line 429, in execute
:    self.anaconda.keyboard.set(self.keyboard)
:  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/kickstart.py", line 1226, in execute
:    obj.execute()
:  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/kickstart.py", line 1277, in doKickstart
:    anaconda.ksdata.execute()
:  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/dispatch.py", line 373, in dispatch
:    self.dir = self.steps[self.step].target(self.anaconda)
:  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/gui.py", line 88, in return_false
:    func(*args, **kwargs)
:KeyError: 'us-ctrl_capslock'
Comment 1 Dan Krejsa 2011-11-10 04:33:23 UTC 
Created attachment 532718 [details]
File: anaconda-tb-L7e4Ba
Comment 2 Dan Krejsa 2011-11-11 18:49:23 UTC 
Shortly after installing Fedora 15 in the distant past, I had created
/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us-ctrl_capslock.map.gz
and modified /etc/sysconfig/keyboard to set
KEYBOARD="us-ctrl_capslock"
in order to use the new keymap, swapping control and caps-lock keys in text mode.

When upgrading to Fedora 16 using preupgrade, after reboot into the installer
the keyboard configuration code evidently determined that it did not know
about the us-ctrl_capslock map, and so it popped up a dialog allowing me to
chose a keymap; I chose the 'us' map.  However, apparently not all the software
got the word that the keymap was changed from 'us-ctrl_capslock' to 'us', and
keyboard.py got the exception above due to the unknown key.

I was able to recover by rebooting into the old Fedora 15 kernel and
removing us-ctrl_capslock.map.gz and setting the KEYBOARD back to "us" in 
/etc/sysconfig/keyboard, then re-running preupgrade.

This bug probably does not affect a large number of people, but it does look
like a partial attempt was made to handle the case of a keymap unknown to the
installer, but that attempt just did not go far enough.
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