From: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 25453@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25453: Inconsistent keyboard layout affecting encrypted root
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 23:05:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vag1j77b.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vat9akzj.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Fri, 20 Jan 2017 15:01:36 +0100")
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ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Hi!
>
> Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> 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.
>
> Should we install the keymap right in the initrd, before we’ve mounted
> the root partition? That would require copying the right keymap(s) and
> probably ‘loadkeys’ to the initrd, which might make it quite big.
>
> Suggestions? How do others handle it?
>
> Thanks for your report,
> Ludo’.
I may be wrong, but keep in mind that Grub and other bootloaders might
require their own configuration to set the keyboard layout, also.
--
Chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-17 7:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-15 6:55 bug#25453: Inconsistent keyboard layout affecting encrypted root Christopher Baines
2017-01-20 14:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-14 13:22 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2018-01-17 7:05 ` Chris Marusich [this message]
2018-01-17 8:29 ` ng0
2019-03-24 22:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-03-25 5:44 ` Christopher Baines
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