Description of problem: Keyboard layout selection (keyboard layout "dk") has no effect after Anaconda reboots (after installation of the appx. 900 packages). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Anaconda ...54 How reproducible: Every time during my daily installs of Fedora 9 (4 days in a row). Steps to Reproduce: 1. Download boot.iso from rawhide (in my case from http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/development/i386/os) 2. Boot and perform clean install from URL mentioned above (standard disk layout) 3. Select language "danish" and keyboard layout "dk" (not "dk latin") 4. Remove tick mark in "office" packages (none of the 4 set of usages selected, leaving a pretty minimal system) 5. Normal install of appx. 900 packages, reboot, run "first-run" utility 6. Now the keyboard layout is the default "us" and not dk. Actual results: Keyboard layout is an english default. Expected results: Keyboard layout should be as selected during the installation - in this case it should be "dk". A change to "dk" via SYSTEM / ADMINISTRATION / KEYBOARD works OK and is also in place after next reboot. Additional info:
So /etc/sysconfig/keyboard didn't have the right layout after you rebooted initially?
I'll have to check this after my next daily install. Right now it shows "dk" but I have corrected the layout selection shortly after install by selecting SYSTEM / ADMINISTRATION / KEYBOARD and then selecting the "dk" layout. So I don't know right now if this was orginally something different. There is another way of correcting the layout - I used that for a previous install a few days ago: SYSTEM / PREFERENCES / HARDWARE / KEYBOARD and select the LAYOUT tab. Then ADD layout DANISH and mark as default. This seems to require a reboot to take effect. Curiously, the method I used today (SYSTEM / ADMINISTRATION / KEYBOARD), which also works fine, isn't reflected in SYSTEM / PREFERENCES / HARDWARE / KEYBOARD which still only mentions US. It seems we have multiple sets of settings for selecting the keyboard layout and they don't necessarily need to be set equally?
Yes, you can individually set the keyboard layout for the system as well as for the user
In answer to #1: The following behaviour is from daily installs from http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/development/i386/os (after the daily syncs) on 22-Mar, 23-Mar and 24-Mar. The problem is still there. 1) /etc/sysconfig/keyboard contains KEYBOARDTYPE="pc" KEYTABLE="dk" 2) GNOME SYSTEM / ADMINISTRATION / KEYBOARD has "Danish" selected. (Manually setting this to something else then setting back to "Danish" solves the problem for me.) 3) GNOME SYSTEM / SETTINGS / HARDWARE / KEYBOARD has "USA" on the list (with no bullet in the "default" column). (The manual selection mentioned under 2) doesn't change this but solves the problem anyway.) I can't confirm changes after reboot and relogin with these builds. The 21-Mar install (which I didn't examine very carefully) was corrected as mentioned in 2) above and left on overnight. The next morning it was back to USA keyboard layout by itself. (Patch handling was left at default which I understand is "tell about but do not install automatically.) And thanks to #3 for clarifying that. I suspected something like that, but it was unclear to me what is "system" and what is "user".
Okay, so this is the case that we know about. We made a late switch back to using kbd for the keyboard rather than evdev just before beta and so lost the bits that look at the system settings in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard. We'll get it back before the next milestone one way or another.
That's fine. Do I change the bug status at this point?
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The plan is to handle this in X based on what is in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard
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Okay, for now, made rhpxl go back to writing out a keyboard section if it's given keyboard information. Which it is in the installer case. Don't like it, but it seems like the shortest path for F9. For F10, I really am taking out the writing of an xorg.conf from anaconda, etc, though...
I installed F9pr with a UK keyboard. In the installed system, the keyboard layout indicator shows gb, and shift-3 produces £ as expected. I'm going to close this, but please retest with F9PR/rawhide-20080417 or later (anything with anaconda-11.4.0.73-2 or higher) to confirm for yourself. Feel free to re-open this bug if it's not fixed for you.