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Evening everybody,
one issue, that I keep getting intermittently and which I now had time to look into. I did a search in bugzilla, but found nothing relevant, maybe because of the wrong keywords...
On the ttys (CRTL+ALT+1 to 6, I forgot the exact name) the german umlauts öÖüÜäÄ are displayed wrong, when I hit those keys. Seems like two characters each are displayed, as I end up with 'undeletable' characters on the prompt: I type in three ä's, which get displayed as six characters. I can press delete more three times, but only three characters are getting deleted. But those visible are not being 'used', I can type in 'ls' after them and ls is being called.
Happens with root and normal users. I set everything to english via yast (System -> Language), just kept the german keyboard layout. No change. Set root to have no CTYPE. No change.
Now, funny thing: Logging out and in again, wrong umlauts displayed. localectl says keyboard-layout is de-latin1. # localectl set-keymap de-latin1-nodeadkeys -> works
Next time this happens with de-latin1-nodeadkeys, and setting to de-latin1 fixes it, but only in this tty. Not in others.
Happens a lot, only in ttys, not in KDE konsole/xterm or similar.
The multiple-characters-per-keystroke-thingy sounds to me like some UTF-8-issue, but thats way out of my league..
Can anyone help? Anyone else seeing this?
Systems used are tumbleweed installations, the one normal 13.1 has not been used that much, so maybe I have just not seen it there.
Regards, Johannes
P.S.: Sorry if the description is a bit confusing, but its just too late... ;-) - -- Obscene? Obscene is young men being trained to drop fire on people, but their commanders not allowing them to write 'fuck' on their airplanes because it's obscene. (unknown)
* Johannes Kastl mail@ojkastl.de [04-09-14 16:18]:
one issue, that I keep getting intermittently and which I now had time to look into. I did a search in bugzilla, but found nothing relevant, maybe because of the wrong keywords...
On the ttys (CRTL+ALT+1 to 6, I forgot the exact name) the german umlauts öÖüÜäÄ are displayed wrong, when I hit those keys. Seems like two characters each are displayed, as I end up with 'undeletable' characters on the prompt: I type in three ä's, which get displayed as six characters. I can press delete more three times, but only three characters are getting deleted. But those visible are not being 'used', I can type in 'ls' after them and ls is being called.
I have "char" display problems on tty1, but not 2-6, and solution is to issue "unicode_start" and the display is corrected. Where I first noticed was the box chars for mc. Note that I do not see the problem in tty2-6.
On 2014-04-09 16:22 (GMT-0400) Patrick Shanahan composed:
Johannes Kastl composed:
one issue, that I keep getting intermittently and which I now had time to look into. I did a search in bugzilla, but found nothing relevant, maybe because of the wrong keywords...
On the ttys (CRTL+ALT+1 to 6, I forgot the exact name) the german umlauts öÖüÜäÄ are displayed wrong, when I hit those keys. Seems like two characters each are displayed, as I end up with 'undeletable' characters on the prompt: I type in three ä's, which get displayed as six characters. I can press delete more three times, but only three characters are getting deleted. But those visible are not being 'used', I can type in 'ls' after them and ls is being called.
I have "char" display problems on tty1, but not 2-6, and solution is to issue "unicode_start" and the display is corrected. Where I first noticed was the box chars for mc. Note that I do not see the problem in tty2-6.
I rarely login on tty1. MC most often goes on tty2 here. The problem occurs here on many 13.1 and Factory installations, but far from all, and the same problem occurs on Mageia and Fedora latest and devel. I did find Fedora bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=889710 which makes me sense this is a combination of upstream and distro specific tweaking of systemd and "gettys". I workaround it with a miniscript in /usr/local/bin mc1 to call unicode_start before running MC.
What the differences could be on individual installations so as to cause it on some but not others is perplexing, but I've also noticed a likely related problem. In X, copy with edit is always shift-F5 and move/rename with edit is always shift-F6. On the ttys this used to always not be the case, where instead copy with edit has been shift-F3 and move/rename with edit has been shift-F4. Since 13.1 devel period or maybe before, it has often been the case that the match to X occurs, but again, there's no apparent pattern to which do and which do not.
I keep meaning to try setting RUN_PARALLEL="no" in /etc/sysconfig/boot to see if it changes the behavior in any given installation, but so far never seem to be able to remember when time permits.
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On 09.04.2014 22:22 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
I have "char" display problems on tty1, but not 2-6, and solution is to issue "unicode_start" and the display is corrected. Where I first noticed was the box chars for mc. Note that I do not see the problem in tty2-6.
I did a quick test, and unicode_start helped.
Now I do not see the problem anymore, without using unicode_start. I'll keep an eye out for it...
Regards, Johannes - -- `Don't, Ginny, we'll send you loads of owls.´ `We'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat.´ `George!´ `Only joking, Mum.´ (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone)
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В Wed, 09 Apr 2014 22:16:58 +0200 Johannes Kastl mail@ojkastl.de пишет:
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Evening everybody,
one issue, that I keep getting intermittently and which I now had time to look into. I did a search in bugzilla, but found nothing relevant, maybe because of the wrong keywords...
On the ttys (CRTL+ALT+1 to 6, I forgot the exact name) the german umlauts öÖüÜäÄ are displayed wrong, when I hit those keys. Seems like two characters each are displayed, as I end up with 'undeletable' characters on the prompt:
Are you using graphical Plymouth? Then https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=780516 may be it.
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On 10.04.2014 04:21 Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
Are you using graphical Plymouth? Then https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=780516 may be it.
I have plymouth installed, but I disabled it. All four services are disabled, according to systemctl status:
XXX:~> systemctl status plymouth-start.service plymouth-start.service - Show Plymouth Boot Screen Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/plymouth-start.service; disabled) Active: inactive (dead) since Do 2014-04-10 10:13:28 CEST; 8h ago Main PID: 295 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
XXX:~>systemctl status plymouth-read-write.service plymouth-read-write.service - Tell Plymouth To Write Out Runtime Data Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/plymouth-read-write.service; disabled) Active: inactive (dead) since Do 2014-04-10 10:13:31 CEST; 8h ago Main PID: 496 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
XXX:~>systemctl status plymouth-quit plymouth-quit.service - Terminate Plymouth Boot Screen Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/plymouth-quit.service; disabled) Active: inactive (dead)
XXX:~>systemctl status plymouth-quit-wait.service plymouth-quit-wait.service - Wait for Plymouth Boot Screen to Quit Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/plymouth-quit-wait.service; disabled) Active: inactive (dead)
I uninstalled them all on one machine, but then X did not start due to errors, so I installed them again.
Regards, Johannes - -- `Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in useful. I have one myself above my left knee which is a perfect map of the London Underground.´ (Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter I)
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