Bugzilla – Bug 132904
Wrong keyboard layout (US) while german installation
Last modified: 2005-11-18 06:55:38 UTC
While installation I tried to set for root user a password with '#' (e.g.: 11tomate#11), but I alway get a error message that I only should use allowed characters (but '#') is in the list of allowed.
definitely not a critical
I cannot reproduce it, please attach the log files. (see http://www.opensuse.org/Bug_Reporting_FAQ#YaST)
hm ... I investigated the problem a littlebit and it looks like again a problem with wrong keyboard layout while german installation.
Created attachment 56969 [details] logs from yast
ok, I cannot see anything from logs (and in case the statement from comment #3 is true, I couldn't). Closing as invalid, please reopen if you are able to reproduce the bug.
Btw. why do I get a wrong keyboard layout? In the past this worked correct.
And what do you mean by "wrong"? According to the logs, you have set german keyboard.
Yes, I this is what I wan't, but it was not what I get. IMO the keyboard layout of this USB Kexboard was set to US Layout.
Looks like we are going in circles. 1. Your original report was that root password with '#' is not allowed. On my test installation, I can use # in password without problems. So I assume this is not the real problem. From the logs, I am not able to see which password did you really use (passwords are not logged), so the bug can be only valid if you describe the way how to reproduce it. (-> currently INVALID) 2. In comment #3 you stated that it might be a problem with different keyboard layout. Well, that might be the problem, when you think you are using us layout, while actually entering some language specific characters instead of # (just for example, for czech layout it would be 'č' :-)) - which is not allowed in the password. -> INVALID 3. But if "wrong" means US, what did you really entered as the root password? NEEDINFO, again
What I sad is: this is maybe not the problem of '#' in the password, because the system used the wrong keyboard layout! This mean: I selected a german installation, changed nothing on the keyboard layout and get not the german layout on the USB-Keyboard. It looks as if I had get a US-Keyboard layout instead of the expected german layout. Because of this I used a not allowed character in the password. Btw. Maybe the focus of the bug is changed. I change the summary of the bug.
I wonder which character from US Layout you could use to be invalid. But anyway - the logfiles say that you have used german layout; could you please attach /etc/sysconfig/langauge and /etc/sysconfig/keyboard to see if anything on the installed system is wrong?
Created attachment 57242 [details] requested /etc/sysconfig/langauge
Created attachment 57243 [details] requested /etc/sysconfig/keyboard
You have german keyboard in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard, you have it selected according to the log files, so where's the problem? Are you able to reproduce whole bug?
One of the problems as I sad: I have US-Layout in KDM and on tty-console and not as selected german layout. If I start Yast and try to change the keyboard layout there is only a empty list. I can't change the settings in YaST.
Where do you start YaST and see the empty list? On console or in X? Can you attach the y2logs after yast2 was started this way?
This happend on console with the ncurses YaST, not tested under X. The machine is today not available, I attach the log later/tomorrow.
Created attachment 57503 [details] requested File I must reinstall the system now with Alpha3 I try to reproduce this there
According to the latest logs it looks like problem is cause by the problems of hardware detection introduced in Alpha 2. I'll wait for you reproduce attempt.
I tried to reproduce with Alpha3. All works fine there, no problems. I think you can close the bug.
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