> Sometimes, my q key gives me a 'a'. 'a' key still gives 'a' too. > > So I have no more 'q'. The other keys seem to work fine. > > If I do a dpkg-reconfigure console-tools, things come in order again (a > chance there is no q in it !) > > I couldn't find when this happen, it just happens sometimes... > > Any idea ?
I had the same problem. If I remember right, the keyboard configuration script loads the keymap from /usr/share/keymaps, then regenerates it in /etc/console-tools. The problem is that it is regenerated wrong: the setting for the q key is not written. Note the suspicious fact that q has keycode 0. This is clearly a bug in one of the console tools, one that I was too lazy to chase in the source code. A quick fix is to edit /etc/console-tools/default.kmap.gz by hand, putting in the setting for the q key (or you can just copy across the file from /usr/share/keymaps). By the way, all this is from memory because I don't have access to the machine it happened on right now. I hope this helps, Duncan Sands.
