Bug#496929: The default locale only applies on one among the six consoles
Anton Zinoviev
On 28 Aug 2008 you reported the following problem:
> By default I use fr_FR@euro. On tty1, I can type accents and read them.
> On X too. But on tty2, 3, 4, 5, 6, I can't type accents; they're only
> readable. If I run X on tty2, gedit saves everything in utf8 and I've to
> select iso-8859-15 by hand. Probably it's utf8 the locale by default.
When this bug was redirected to console-setup I was in vacation so I
didn't answer. Is the problem still there? I am pretty much sure that
the bug is not related to console-setup but if the bug is still there we
can try to find the cause of it and the proper fix.
Anton Zinoviev
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Anton Zinoviev
>
> Yes the bug still exists, even on Lenny (stable). It's not really a
> problem since I use a bit more gnome, but the bug is here and I don't
> understand it. Right I am not sure of the package which has the bug, but
> I hypothesis it's console-setup. I'm ready to help testing, debugging...
Thanks for offerint to help. Here are some questions:
Can you check the output of the 'locale' command on tty1 and tty2?
Are you able to type accents after 'cat >/dev/null'?
Which of the following packages are installed and what version: 'kbd',
'console-tools', 'console-data' and 'console-tools'?
It will be of a great help if you can send some of your configuration
files by using the following command:
tar zcf /tmp/locale-bug.tar.gz `ls -d /etc/default/*console* /etc/default/*kbd* /etc/init.d/*console* /etc/init.d/*kbd* /etc/*kbd* /etc/*console*`
an...@lml.bas.bg
thanks
Hello,
I'd like to thank Michael Schutte who helped me figure out what caused
the bug you reported (the default locale applies on only one console).
Michael told me that the bug you reported is reproducible with
console-tools. The problem seems to be that
/etc/init.d/console-screen.sh (from console-tools) does
unicode_start 2> /dev/null || true
whereas /etc/init.d/console-screen.kbd.sh (from kbd) does
unicode_start "${CONSOLE_FONT}" < ${DEVICE_PREFIX}$vc >${DEVICE_PREFIX}$vc
2> /dev/null || true
for each virtual console ($vc).
Thats why I am reassigning this bug to console-tools. My advice to you
is to install kbd instead of console-tools. Then check whether the
problem disappears and report if it doesn't.
Cyril Brulebois
an...@lml.bas.bg <an...@lml.bas.bg> (08/07/2009):
> Michael told me that the bug you reported is reproducible with
> console-tools.
yes, I've reproduced this locally on lenny/i386.
> Thats why I am reassigning this bug to console-tools. My advice to
> you is to install kbd instead of console-tools. Then check whether
> the problem disappears and report if it doesn't.
Doing that gave the expected result: all TTYs are now OK;
Jean-Philippe confirmed this on IRC.
One shall note that just installing the kbd package is not
sufficient. I didn't check the details but my guess would be that
setting up the consoles is mostly a boot-only thing, which might
explain why we had to reboot to get all consoles to work fine.
Thanks again!
Mraw,
KiBi.