-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/27/11 20:51, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 03:24:07PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: >> > Trying to configure several servers over network I noticed that >> > "dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration" silently dies, if no keyboard >> > is attached to the PC. > I suppose you don't mean that dpkg-reconfigure dies (i.e. exits with > error) but that it simply exits without asking any questions. This is > the intended behaviour - there is no point to configure a keyboard if > there is no keyboard.
There is no point to install the keyboard-configuration package for a machine without keyboard, either, so we can ignore this special case. The machines _do_ have a keyboard; its just not attached all the time. > > I can suggest four solutions for your problem: > > 1. Buy an active KVM switch. With an active KVM switch all computers > will see a keyboard. > Replacing the KVM as a workaround for a software problem is not an option right now. > 2. Do not reconfigure remotely the keyboard. It is safer when a local > operator does this because it is possible to test that the keyboard > configuration works as intended. > Traveling to the data center in Frankfurt (about 300km) just to configure the keyboard layout is not an option, either. > 3. Edit /etc/default/keyboard by hand. You can use scp to copy the same > file between the machines. This a lot easier than running > dpkg-reconfigure on each machine. > > 4. Run dpkg-reconfigure on the computer that currently sees the keyboard > from the KVM switch and then copy its /etc/default/keyboard to the other > machines. You mean I should avoid running dpkg-reconfigure and configure the packages manually instead? I can do that for almost all packages, but actually I don't see why the postinst scripts shouldn't do their job. For the machines _with_ a local keyboard I could login via ssh and define a completely arbitrary keyboard mapping using dpkg-reconfigure. I don't know the internals of the postinst script that much, but it seems that this temporary hardware dependency can be dropped. I don't like keyboards with national settings either, but fact is that some people can type only with their favorite keyboard layout. Surely this is not a fatal problem, but it would be very nice if we could find a smart solution for this, instead of just closing this bug report. Many thanx Harri -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk24+9UACgkQUTlbRTxpHjf5awCdGjZbCPFMeZLs0tBmzo3xSoCl 1bAAnjDwIUKyY6vN4XUTduSADV4knQQs =sGV0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
