Bug 106139

Summary:	Language/keyboard setting to applied in whole installation system
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Marcus Schaefer <ms>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	marcel, suse-beta, yast2-maintainers
Version:	Beta 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	SUSE Other
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Description Ulrich Windl 2005-08-22 12:43:47 UTC

When I select "German" as language option in the DVD's boot prompt (before Linux
kernel is loaded), messages appear in the correct language and keyboard seems to
work correctly. But when I "escape" to TTY2 (Ctrl+Alt+F2), the keybaord uses
US-American mapping (i.e. I'll have to type '-' to get a '/', and '-' is on 'ß').
In former releases there wasn't such a problem.

Comment 1 Arvin Schnell 2005-08-22 12:46:48 UTC

Steffen, I suppose this is a linuxrc problem.

Comment 2 Steffen Winterfeldt 2005-08-23 10:40:08 UTC

No, it's not. If you go for a manual install, linuxrc sets the 
language on all consoles. But yast does not. 
 
Anyway, I don't think the console language setting really matters.

Comment 3 Marcel Hilzinger 2005-08-23 11:36:52 UTC

I had a similar problem and asked Ulrich to open a bugreport. This one has to 
be resolved, I guess: 
 
if you first choose englisch for install (just pressing Next in the first 
screen), then want to switch back to german (in the YaST propositions dialog), 
the menue entries are switched to german, but the keyboard remains american 
english (I changed the keyboard, too). 
 
I reopened the bug, because setting the root and the user password is 
affected, if it contains y or z. The upcoming X uses the right keyboard layout 
(german), so you won't be able to login if you choosed a password with y or z.

Comment 4 Steffen Winterfeldt 2005-08-23 11:45:08 UTC

then assign the bug to yast

Comment 5 Ulrich Windl 2005-08-23 12:12:47 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> Anyway, I don't think the console language setting really matters. 

The bug report is about keyboard mapping, which is quite different from "console
language". It's easy to read English, but it's hard to type on a keyboard where
the key labels differ from the charcters being entered to the system.

Comment 6 Arvin Schnell 2005-08-23 12:21:48 UTC

Please, only one bug per bugzilla entry!

Marcus, it's up to you if you want to fix the initial problem.

Comment 7 Marcus Schaefer 2005-08-23 13:15:06 UTC

I also don't think the console language setting really matters  
currently the startup scripts only prepare the LANG environment  
but did not call loadkeys to apply for a console

Comment 8 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:32:34 UTC

mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy)

Comment 9 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:34:05 UTC

mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy)

Comment 10 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:40:30 UTC

mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy)

Comment 11 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:52:24 UTC

Closing old LATER+REMIND bugs as WONTFIX - if you still plan to work on it, feel free to reopen and set to ASSIGNED.

In case the report saw repeated reopen comments, it's due to bugzilla timing out on the huge request ;(