Comment # 21 on bug 1123525 from Thomas Blume

(In reply to Freek de Kruijf from comment #20)
> # rpm -qf /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/xkb/us.map.gz
> kbd-2.0.4-lp150.6.2.armv7hl
> # lsinitrd | grep '\.map'
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root          249 May  8  2018
> usr/share/kbd/keymaps/legacy/i386/include/euro1.map
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root         2004 May  8  2018
> usr/share/kbd/keymaps/legacy/i386/qwerty/us.map
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root       121059 May  8  2018
> usr/share/kbd/keymaps/xkb/us.map
> # more /etc/vconsole.conf
> KEYMAP=us.map.gz
> rpi2150hon:~ #
> 
> > Please remove the .gz suffix from the keymap name, otherwise systemd-vconsole-setup will fail:
> 
> When I change the above to KEYMAP=us.map I get an error message:
> jan 15 11:05:22 rpi2150hon systemd-vconsole-setup[160]: /usr/bin/loadkeys
> failed with error code 1.
> jan 15 11:05:22 rpi2150hon systemd-vconsole-setup[160]: cannot open file
> us.map.gz
> jan 15 11:05:22 rpi2150hon systemd[1]: systemd-vconsole-setup.service: Main
> process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
> jan 15 11:05:22 rpi2150hon systemd[1]: Failed to start Setup Virtual Console.
> jan 15 11:05:22 rpi2150hon systemd[1]: systemd-vconsole-setup.service: Unit
> entered failed state.
> 
> So KEYMAP=us.map.gz seems OK.

Hm, that is pretty strange.
The lsinitrd above shows that there is no file us.map.gz in the initrd.
When I set:

KEYMAP=us.map.gz

on my testmachine.
I get in the debug logs:

-->
Feb 05 09:32:33 linux-s9lv systemd-vconsole-setup[130]: cannot open file
us.map.gz
[...]
Feb 05 09:32:33 linux-s9lv systemd-vconsole-setup[130]: Executing
"/usr/bin/loadkeys -q -C /dev/tty1 -u us.map.gz"...
[...]
Feb 05 09:32:33 linux-s9lv systemd-vconsole-setup[130]: /usr/bin/loadkeys
failed with error code 1.
--<

So in my tests, the keymap setup in the initrd fails, when using the .gz
suffix.
Could you please set:

KEYMAP=us.map

in /etc/vconsole.conf

then run:

mkinitrd

and reboot with the boot option "quiet" removed and the boot option "debug"
set?
Afterwards, please attach the output of:

journalctl -axb | grep systemd-vconsole-setup