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Bug 1111405

Summary:	Anaconda does not set keymap for console / luks
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	William Brown <william>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	7.0	CC:	atodorov, mbanas, pkotvan
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	anaconda-19.31.83-1	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Cause: Anaconda wrote boot options trying to set the console keymap on boot which no longer works with the way how dracut handles the host-only mode. Consequence: Problems with console keymap. Fix: Anaconda no longer writes boot options trying to set the console keymap on boot which no longer works with the way how dracut handles the host-only mode. Result: Less problems with console keymap on boot.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:
Clones:	1170579 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2020-12-15 07:30:41 UTC	Type:	Bug
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:	1170579
Bug Blocks:

Description William Brown 2014-06-20 00:55:41 UTC

Description of problem:
Identical to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=875567

Anaconda does not set the vconsole parameter correctly, meaning a system's tty or plymoth prompts don't match the installed keyboard layout.

Comment 3 Alexander Todorov 2014-11-24 15:06:51 UTC

I've selected Bulgarian language at the welcome screen and in keyboard selection removed US layout and left only BG layout. Then proceeded to install using the default disk layout + encryption. 

The system reboots but doesn't display any LUKS prompt. In fact the screen stays black all the time shortly after grub menu dissapears. I'm going to dig deeper into this tomorrow.

Comment 4 Alexander Todorov 2014-12-02 13:04:48 UTC

See comment #3. 

After install the graphical plymouth scrfeen doesn't show a prompt to enter the password. Removing rhgb from the boot command line shows a text prompt but I'm unable to enter the password. Moving back to ASSIGNED.

Comment 5 Vratislav Podzimek 2014-12-03 09:04:33 UTC

(In reply to Alexander Todorov from comment #4)
> See comment #3. 
> 
> After install the graphical plymouth scrfeen doesn't show a prompt to enter
> the password. Removing rhgb from the boot command line shows a text prompt
> but I'm unable to enter the password. Moving back to ASSIGNED.
I don't think any of these two issues you describe are caused by anaconda. Can you please check that on such system the /etc/vconsole.conf file contains the right value(s)? And that the grub configuration doesn't contain the specification of a vconsole.keymap? If these two things are as expected, there's nothing more anaconda could do about it. Everything else is dracut's task.

Comment 6 Alexander Todorov 2014-12-03 23:09:23 UTC

* grub.conf doesn't define vconsole.keymap
* /etc/vconsole.conf has:
KEYMAP="us"
FONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"


Changing the KEYMAP to "bg" before reboot doesn't change anything. I forgot to check is initrd.img contains a copy of /etc/vconsole.conf but maybe it does.

Comment 7 Vratislav Podzimek 2014-12-04 10:44:30 UTC

(In reply to Alexander Todorov from comment #6)
> * grub.conf doesn't define vconsole.keymap
That's correct.

> * /etc/vconsole.conf has:
> KEYMAP="us"
This is a bug in systemd which (via systemd-localed) suggests 'us' or nothing as a matching VConsole keymap for the 'bg' layout when queried by anaconda.

> FONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"
> 
> 
> Changing the KEYMAP to "bg" before reboot doesn't change anything. I forgot
> to check is initrd.img contains a copy of /etc/vconsole.conf but maybe it
> does.
This is a feature of dracut which requires intrd.img to be regenerated if /etc/vconsole.conf changed.

Comment 8 David Cantrell 2014-12-17 15:43:51 UTC

Moving to 7.2 as this is dependent on bug #1170579.

Comment 16 RHEL Program Management 2020-12-15 07:30:41 UTC

After evaluating this issue, there are no plans to address it further or fix it in an upcoming release.  Therefore, it is being closed.  If plans change such that this issue will be fixed in an upcoming release, then the bug can be reopened.