Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: console-setup
I'm running a preseed install with Ubuntu 8.04, and what I found is
with console-setup/layoutcode=en_US in the isolinux.cfg (for CD) and
pxelinux.cfg/default (for net install), the keyboard layout is set to
"af" (Afghanistan), so I cannot even login.
I did eventually realize in ubuntu.seed, I had "d-i console-
setup/layoutcode string us" and changing the string in isolinux.cfg and
pxelinux.cfg/default to match fixed it (changed en_US to us).
There are quite a few examples online that use en_US though, so I
would say there are two solutions:
1) Add a mention to the online preseed documentation that en_US and
similar do not work for layoutcode even if they used to. (Preferred
IMHO).
2) Work up console-setup so it accepts formats like en_US again.
(Might save a few people grief, but I do see this as inelegant since US
keyboard layout's not language dependent, this isn't the clean
solution.)
Great work everybody! We've installed 1000's of copies of Ubuntu
at the computer surplus I work at, and use it at home, and it works
great! Since they are surplus, we get so many different models and ages
of machines (right down to P2s and P3s), it's great to be able to just
plug it into the install LAN and go work on something else knowing the
install will work out of the box. (Also makes a nice burn-in test --
install failure points pretty solidly to a flakey computer 8-)
** Affects: console-setup (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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console-setup/layoutcode=en_US causes wrong keyboard selection
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/224773
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