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bug#25453: Inconsistent keyboard layout affecting encrypted root
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#25453: Inconsistent keyboard layout affecting encrypted root |
Date: |
Sun, 24 Mar 2019 23:21:10 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Chris!
address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
> Christopher Baines <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> I'm using a UK keyboard layout with a computer that I recently installed
>> GuixSD on with a encrypted root parition. Immediately after installation
>> when I attempted to boot in to the new system for the first time I had
>> to enter the passphrase twice, and in doing this, first I had to use the
>> keyboard layout under which I carried out the installation (the layout
>> which I had intended to use), and then during the early boot stage of
>> the system I had to enter the passphrase using a different keyboard
>> layout.
>
> Currently installing a keymap is something done by the ‘console-keymap’
> Shepherd service, which invokes ‘loadkeys’. That happens after
> “cryptsetup --open” has opened your encrypted root device, hence the
> problem.
This is finally fixed by commit
ae7a316b9da0d1a50c5abdc531c68c8e98e561c9, which initializes the console
keyboard layout straight from the initrd.
Ludo’.
- bug#25453: Inconsistent keyboard layout affecting encrypted root,
Ludovic Courtès <=