Comment # 13 on bug 1195508 from Antonio Feijoo

(In reply to Franck Bui from comment #12)
> I can see 2 issues:
> 
>  1. /etc/vconsole defines KEYMAP= which was initialized with a filename with
> extensions (.map.gz). I think that's incorrect and only the mapping name
> should be used, 'us' in that case.
> 
> The reason is that systemd-vconsole-setup calls and passes the value of
> KEYMAP to loadkeys(1), "us.map.gz" in this case. However loadkeys(1)
> basically uses the passed value as it was specified to find the mapping
> table on the disk.
> 
> Hence by defining KEYMAP=us.map.gz, it (installer ?) strongly makes
> assumption on how the mapping file is saved (compressed in this case) on the
> disk. Which leads to the second issue...
> 
>  2. for some reasons, the mapping tables were embedded in initrd
> uncompressed (see comment #8). I don't think that's correct neither and
> dracut should keep the mapping files as they are saved on the host
> especially if they were compressed (smaller).
> 
> So I think this is a dracut issue, hence can you please take it over Antonio
> ?
> 
> For issue #1, it may deserve a new bug report of its own.

I would say issue #1 is the owner of this bug report: whoever wrote an
incorrect value in /etc/vconsole (which I verified to be root cause of the
systemd-vconsole-setup failure), made us aware of comment #6 fix and maybe what
you noticed as issue #2.

So, I'll investigate if issue #2 deserves a separate bug report or if it's done
on purpose, and reassign this one to the JeOS team (I'm not sure if they know
who writes this wrong configuration value).