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Bug 1117206 - Changing default keyboard is ignored
Summary: Changing default keyboard is ignored
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1050180
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Vratislav Podzimek
QA Contact: Release Test Team
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-07-08 09:33 UTC by James Patterson
Modified: 2014-07-09 14:16 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-07-09 14:16:46 UTC
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Description James Patterson 2014-07-08 09:33:14 UTC 
Description of problem:
If you change the default keyboard in anaconda for the installation, this selection is discarded when the OS is booted.

Important: you add the keyboard layout you want, and remove the keyboard anaconda guesses. After reboot, the default keyboard is the one you removed.

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Comment 2 Vratislav Podzimek 2014-07-08 16:38:24 UTC 
Could you please provide some additional information, namely logs (from /var/log/anaconda/), concrete keyboard layout choice and describe what "this selection is discarded when the OS is booted." means?

The known, already reported issue is that systemd-localed (used by anaconda) fails to provide the best-matching VConsole keymap choice for a given X layout and vice versa. So you may be hitting this bug.
Comment 3 James Patterson 2014-07-08 18:50:59 UTC 
"this selection is discarded when the OS is booted" means: I somehow get a US keyboard when I didn't choose a US keyboard. A US keyboard wasn't even in the list of keyboards, I removed it.

I'll check the rest tomorrow, it sounds like the same bug, do you have a bug#?
Comment 4 Vratislav Podzimek 2014-07-09 07:50:13 UTC 
(In reply to James Patterson from comment #3)
> "this selection is discarded when the OS is booted" means: I somehow get a
> US keyboard when I didn't choose a US keyboard. A US keyboard wasn't even in
> the list of keyboards, I removed it.
The basic question is where you get the US keyboard -- during the boot process, in the VConsole or in the X session?

> 
> I'll check the rest tomorrow, it sounds like the same bug, do you have a
> bug#?
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1050180
Comment 5 James Patterson 2014-07-09 11:08:04 UTC 
> The basic question is where you get the US keyboard -- during the boot process, in the VConsole or in the X session?

It's a minimal install, the keyboard I use to type the login and password is US.

vconsole.conf contains KEYMAP="us"

Bug 1050180 seems very similar or the same.
Comment 6 Vratislav Podzimek 2014-07-09 14:16:46 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1050180 ***
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