On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 07:31:12PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Just after the upgrade of keyboard-configuration from 1.148 to 1.149, > I could see that my previous configuration was lost. More precisely, > config.dat changed in the following way:
When /etc/default/keyboard is ok, config.dat is ignored by console-setup (default values are set before asking questions). > and /etc/default/keyboard changed in the following way: If this file becomes corrupted during upgrade, then this is certainly a bad thing. > -XKBMODEL="pc105" > +XKBMODEL="" > XKBLAYOUT="gb" > XKBVARIANT="" > XKBOPTIONS="" This doesn't look as a file created by console-setup. Because of the missing XKBMODEL, it looks like a file created by systemd-localed.service. Would you experiment with the command # localectl set-keymap .... and # localectl set-x11-keymap ... and see if it corrupts /etc/default/keyboard. > I don't know the possible consequences, though. The > /usr/share/doc/keyboard-configuration/changelog.gz file just says: > > console-setup (1.149) unstable; urgency=medium > > [ Updated translations ] > * Danish (da.po) by Joe Hansen If I am right that the file was corrupted by systemd-localed, then /etc/default/keyboard must have been corrupted after the upgrade of console-setup. If this file was corrupted before the upgrade, then console-setup would have repaired it. > Note: I have > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 145 2016-09-19 19:03:19 /etc/default/keyboard > > Thus this file was modified when keyboard-configuration was upgraded > (and before this upgrade of the Linux kernel and the nvidia packages). Do you know what other packages were upgraded after console-setup and before the Linux kernel and nvidia? > This error message is just a consequence of this bug. Yes. The error message was added in version 1.138 after I became aware that other packages modify the configuration file of console-setup. Anton Zinoviev
