Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 178030
Keyboard mapping not loaded in anaconda
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:21 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051118 Fedora/1.5-0.5.0.rc3 Firefox/1.5 Description of problem: When choosing the keyboard mapping in anaconda the chosen value has no effect on the ananconda instance. After rebooting the system the keymap is properly set. This becomes a problem if your root password contains special characters like $%&/ or on a german keyboard "z" or "y". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start installer 2.Choose Language/Keyboard german 3.Enter root password with special char like %& or z and y on german 4.Complete installation 5.Try to login Actual Results: I am not able to login with the root password (in keys) that i entered during installation. Expected Results: I should have been able to login with the password (in keys) that i entered during installation Additional info:
What installation method are you using (CD, net, floppy...)?
I use installation from dvd
*** Bug 178371 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Please boot the installation media again. During the text mode initialization, select the language and keymap and other settings. Once the graphical portion of the installer has started, switch over to tty2 (Ctrl+Alt+F2) and capture the output of this command: ps -ef | grep anac Paste that here. It should be two lines. Thanks.
Dont understand what you mean. I switch language and keymap in graphic mode.
The language and keymap selection happen before anaconda loads. The screen is different. Blue background with text-style windows. Anaconda starts after you see this text at the bottom of the screen: Running anaconda, the Fedora Core system installer - please wait... The X server is started and anaconda launched. Once you are at the welcome screen (displays the logo and has a Next button and a Release Notes button), press Ctrl+Alt+F2 to get to the shell on tty2. Run the command mentioned above and copy the output here.
Can you try installing using a rescue image from rawhide. We had a number of other keyboard errors reported for FC5t2 and I want to know if this one was cleared up with our recent changes. http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/isos/
Here is my feedback concerning the ps -ef | grep anac command you asked about : root 488 289 0 19:40 ? 00:00:02 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/anaconda -m cdrom://hdc:/mnt/source --graphical --selinux root 498 488 0 19:41 ? 00:00:01 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/anaconda -m cdrom://hdc:/mnt/source --graphical --selinux Hope this will help... About the rescuecd-i386.iso, I was not able to load any images during the rescue process but whatever I choose between fr-latin1, fr-latin9 and fr-pc, the "Directory holding images" field had an azerty french layout. Seems to be fixed then.
Closing, since previous comment indicates that it seems to be fixed.