Keyboard settings seems to not working with console-setup on RPI3

[drtyhlpr]

Keyboard settings seems to not working with console-setup on RPI3

[drtyhlpr]

Hi, thanks for your feedback!

hm I currently don't know why there should be a file created in 2014 if your build system is running the correct date. Can you please add the commandline or config template that you used - so I can use this as a basis to perform the same steps like you did. of course no rpi hardware has realtime clock on it but it should be possible to add a simple i2c based one ... and yeah this nasty big battery.

[supergilbert]

Sorry I was not able to reproduce my problem.
Maybe I have made a wrong configuration or I was too much influenced by people that have problems to update date, when they are in "2014" (The default date on my RPI3 without any setting).
If I see the problem again. I willi try to bring you all usefull the information.
But for now you can consider that as a mistake.

[drtyhlpr]

hi no problem. I ll leave this issue open for a couple of weeks so maybe another user can give message if he has same or similar problems. to be honest I haven't tested the keyboard lang setting much :)

[supergilbert]

It seems to stay some problems with the keyboard configuration under the console.

The keyboard configuration have a strong dependency with packages "keyboard-configuration" and "locales".

In the script "bootstrap.d/12-locale.sh" line 13. There is a grep on ",locales". That seems to not work in some cases.

With the folowing configuration:
RPI_MODEL=3
APT_INCLUDES=locales
XKB_MODEL="pc105"
XKB_LAYOUT="fr"
XKB_VARIANT="latin9"
XKB_OPTIONS=""

I have got:

...

• • grep ,locales
    echo locales,apt-transport-https,apt-utils,ca-certificates,debian-archive-keyring,dialog,sudo,systemd,sysvinit-utils,parted,dbus,openssh-server,alsa-utils,rng-tools
• [ ]
  ...

What follow the echo is the variable APT_INCLUDES
The keyboard configuration does not seems to be done.

(At line 43 we have got "chroot_exec dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive keyboard-configuration", but I do not know if this package is installed without including it in the variable APT_INCLUDES)

[drtyhlpr]

hi thanks for the info. sorry for the delay in the reply. I will test and patch it

[drtyhlpr]

not fixed yet. the required locales (and keyboard) packages are only installed if DEFLOCAL is different from en_US.

# Add required locales packages
if [ "$DEFLOCAL" != "en_US.UTF-8" ] ; then
  APT_INCLUDES="${APT_INCLUDES},locales,keyboard-configuration,console-setup"
fi

I thought the XKB_ settings are only relevant for the xorg keyboard settings, but https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard reads different,

[burnbabyburn]

i always included these packages in apt_include. (German language didn't work without it) seems like this is the same error or atleast related.

I think this should fix the problem:

if [ "$DEFLOCAL" != "en_US.UTF-8" ] || ([ -n XKB_MODEL ] || [ -n XKB_LAYOUT ] ||  [ -n XKB_VARIANT ] ||  [ -n XKB_OPTIONS ]); then
  APT_INCLUDES="${APT_INCLUDES},locales,keyboard-configuration,console-setup"
fi