New subject: [suse-autoinstall] Default keyboard layout is German after install

16 Aug 2004

      Anas,
Sorry, I zipped up the wrong autoyast profile with the logs... I sent the
correct one to your email.
Here is the line from the y2log file that shows the name of the profile
used...

2004-10-10 09:57:31 <1> linux(2374) [YCP] AutoinstConfig.ycp:214 urltok =
$["fragment":"", "host":"193.91.6.69", "pass":"",
"path":"/nld_install/autoyast2_gx270.xml", "port":"", "query":"",
"scheme":"nfs", "user":""]

Notice, I sent you "autoyast_gx270.xml originally last week... the correct
file was autoyast2_gx270.xml.

                      Anas Nashif                                                                                                 
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                      08/16/2004 03:53         Subject: Re: [suse-autoinstall] Default keyboard layout is German after install    
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Anthony Staples wrote:
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Anas,
Where does autoyast get the default X config file (XF85Config)?   Is it
somewhere that it might be edited to change the default keymap to
english!?
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Any responses appreciated!
If x11 is not configured in autoyast, autoyast does not touch the files.
The default config file is installed in some different way, I dont know
exactly where is it copied from and which package copies it.

You profiles are missing the X11 configuration and thats why you get the
default file.

Anas
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Regards,
Anthony Staples
Technical Analyst
Humana Inc.
502.580.2870

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Anas Nashif

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         To:      Anthony Staples

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cc:      Lee Mayes
, lmarks@novell.com, pgriffen@novell.com,
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08/12/2004 01:41         suse-autoinstall@suse.com

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Anthony Staples wrote:
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Anas,
Thanks for your quick response.
The header of the the XF86Config on the autoinstalled machine is:
# Generic XFree86 configuration file
This is the generic x11 file which is german.
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If, as you said below, there is no need for locale in x11 config, then
how
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can configuring it in AutoYast effect the keymap on my installed systems.
Since the header is as above, it doesn't seem to make any difference.
When you set the language and keyboard as shown below in <general> those
values are used when creating the X11 config.
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I checked and then rechecked that my locale settings in "General" were
correct.
here is a snip from the profile... ( it won't let me paste the full
profile
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due to size limitations...)
<general>
     <clock>
       <hwclock>UTC</hwclock>
       <timezone>US/Eastern</timezone>
     </clock>
     <keyboard>
       <keymap>english-us</keymap>
     </keyboard>
     <language>en_US</language>
     <mode>
       <confirm config:type="boolean">false</confirm>
       <forceboot config:type="boolean">false</forceboot>
     </mode>
     <mouse>
       <id>22_exps2</id>
     </mouse>
   </general>
Why shouldn't the general setting be propagated throughout the installed
machine?
They are. But not in the X11 config which is the generic one. This
happens if you dont configure x11 at all using autoyast. If you did have
x11 configured in autoyast, then something else happend. Can you send me
the control file you are using and if possible the y2log files from
/var/log/YaST2/y2log?
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I checked the setting in YAST and keyboard configuration was correctly
set
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to English(US).
Anas
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Cheers,
Tony
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Anas Nashif
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         To:      Anthony Staples

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cc:
lmarks@novell.com, pgriffen@novell.com, Lee Mayes ,
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08/12/2004 11:19         suse-autoinstall@suse.com
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Anthony,
There is no need for locale in the x11 config, the system settings are
taken.
After using the configuration below, what does the header in the
/etc/X11/XF86Config file say?
Anas
Anthony Staples wrote:
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Anas,
Just to clarify, I am running NLD beta not SuSE 9.1 pro.
When I rec'd Lee's response this morning (Thanks!)  I tried just what
you
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suggested, Anas.
I thought that the issue may be in the X11 default config so I created
(using autoyast) a new reference profile from my original and  included
an
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X11 configuration:
Here is the X11 section of my reference profile, though I don't see
anyplace where the keymap is actually set...
<x11>
    16
    true
    gdm
    false
    <monitor>
      <display>
        <frequency config:type="integer">60</frequency>
        <height config:type="integer">768</height>
        <width config:type="integer">1024</width>
      </display>
      1024X768@60HZ
       LCD
    </monitor>
    <resolution>1024x768</resolution>
    gnome
  </x11>
I then proceeded to install a machine with the updated profile, but
still
get the German default keymap rather than US keymap.
Is there anyway for us to change the default keymap in the XF86Config
that
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Autoyast uses?  Before profile generation rather than after...
Regards,
Anthony Staples
Technical Analyst
Humana Inc.
502.580.2870
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Anas Nashif
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         To:      Lee Mayes

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cc:      Anthony Staples
, suse-autoinstall@suse.com
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08/12/2004 09:03         Subject: Re:
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Hi,
This is because you dont configure X using autoyast and the default
/etc/X11/XF86Config happens to be in german ;(
Anas
Lee Mayes wrote:
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Hi Tony,
I noticed that on my SuSE 9.1 AutoYaST installs, the keyboard is set
correctly in everything but X11.  I added the following 2 lines in my
post install user script to fix it:
print KS qq[
/bin/cp /etc/X11/XF86Config /tmp/XF86Config.back
/usr/bin/sed -e 's/XkbLayout"\\t"de/XkbLayout"\\t"$x_kbd/' \
 /etc/X11/XF86Config
];
In my case $x_kbd is a variable passed to the perl script creating
autoyast.xml.  I made a simple 'table' that cross references linux
keyboard environment variables to the X11 ones.   I can provide it if
needed, it's mostly complete but has a few languages I wasn't sure how
to cross reference.
I think if I had fully qualified X's config (vs. letting it default) I
wouldn't have seen the problem.  There are probably other ways to fix
it
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as well, but I was in a hurry and this works for us.
Best Regards,
Lee
On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 14:24, Anthony Staples wrote:
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When i do an autoyast install I always get a german default keyboard
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than US-English.
I explicitly set the layout to US-English in the reference profile.
All
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other settings seem to be ok.
Any insight on how to fix this would be appreciated!!
Cheers,
Tony Staples
astaples@humana.com
Here is a snip from my autoyast reference profile...
<general>
  <clock>
    <hwclock>UTC</hwclock>
    <timezone>US/Eastern</timezone>
  </clock>
  <keyboard>
    <keymap>english-us</keymap>
  </keyboard>
  <language>en_US</language>
  <mode>
    <confirm config:type="boolean">false</confirm>
    <forceboot config:type="boolean">false</forceboot>
  </mode>
  <mouse>
    <id>22_exps2</id>
  </mouse>
</general>
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