Dave: If you have access to bugzilla, you can look at bugid 4585 and this is what you run into:
http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=4585 This is caused by the fix of the following bug: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=4543 Can you try this in AI before ICT is run: After AI image is booted, please explicitly setup keyboard layout - make sure it is done before the installer hits the final ICT phase: # kbd -s UK-English Dave Price wrote: > Dear All, > > Thanks for the input from you all so far... > > >> The liveCD uses "/usr/bin/kbd -s" to prompt for >> keyboard choice, and >> "/usr/bin/kbd -s UK-English" should work as the >> non-interactive command >> to set the keyboard. Is that not working? >> > > I am now chasing several issues of wrong characters... > > As far as I have been able to test so far, issuing > pfexec /usr/bin/kbd -s UK-English > > does not end up working... I can execute it o.k., no error messages, > but after issuing the ? characters still show as ? > > I did it inside a gnome-terminal window - no luck > I did it inside a failsafe login window... no luck > I then did various logging out and back in and so on but no luck... > > What I am now doing is trying to get the machine to boot "single > user" and then I'll try from there (I added -s to end of grub kernel line). > > What we HAVE found that works, is that when we get the opensolaris > login screen, then if we select "language" from the appropriate button, > and choose UK-English from that, > then continue to log in, after we are then logged in it has then set > things up correct and ? gives ?. > > However, ssh sessions to the machine (from other things > where keyboard is fine in local apps) then ? shows as ? in those > ssh sessions. > > However, some users will need to log in via ssh and we don't > want to have to tell any local users or xdmcp users that they have to > manually change language to UK-English each... We want the system > default to become UK-English and issuing kbd -s UK-English > is not doing that, even if run with pfexec by our permitted > pfexec user... > > I am still waiting for the "single user" boot to complete, its taking ages.... > > When it does single-user boot (if it does), then I'll try the kbd > command on that and report again... > > Dave Price >
