Bug#821946: systemd: Something (systemd?) keeps changing my /etc/vconsole.conf away from Dvorak

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 3:22 PM, Michael Biebl  wrote:
> Control: tags -1 moreinfo unreproducible
>
> On Wed, 20 Apr 2016 19:04:01 +0200
> =?utf-8?b?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsCBCamFybWFzb24=?=  wrote:
>> Package: systemd
>> Version: 215-17+deb8u4
>> Severity: important
>>
>> [I filed this before, but I saw I set my E-Mail to avar@localhost, so
>>  it was probably auto-rejected, can't find it in the BTS]
>>
>> I'm not even sure if this is a systemd bug, especially given
>> #803970. If you know about something that automatically edits
>> /etc/vconsole.conf that isn't systemd please forward this report to
>> that package.
>
> Can you pinpoint the change of /etc/vconsole.conf to a specific action
> you do?

I *think* in the past it was related to upgrading some packages, but I
could never figure out what package exactly.

I was hoping to file a bug and someone who could grep the install
scripts could check for vconsole.conf and say whether it was systemd
or not

I filed it with systemd since it owns localectl, which is as close as I got.

For what it's worth I've recentlry done apt upgrades where the
keyboard is reset to QWERTY but the vconsole.conf is *not* changed,
instead I need to run "dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration" again
and re-select the exact same options I have selected already, and
somehow the kernel then gets the hint that I want the Dvorak layout.

So probably in the absence of other evidence this bug should be
reassigned to the keyboard-configuration package.

Bug#821946: systemd: Something (systemd?) keeps changing my /etc/vconsole.conf away from Dvorak

[Michael Biebl]

Control: tags -1 moreinfo unreproducible

On Wed, 20 Apr 2016 19:04:01 +0200
=?utf-8?b?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsCBCamFybWFzb24=?=  wrote:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 215-17+deb8u4
> Severity: important
> 
> [I filed this before, but I saw I set my E-Mail to avar@localhost, so
>  it was probably auto-rejected, can't find it in the BTS]
> 
> I'm not even sure if this is a systemd bug, especially given
> #803970. If you know about something that automatically edits
> /etc/vconsole.conf that isn't systemd please forward this report to
> that package.

Can you pinpoint the change of /etc/vconsole.conf to a specific action
you do?
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Bug#821946: systemd: Something (systemd?) keeps changing my /etc/vconsole.conf away from Dvorak

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

Package: systemd
Version: 215-17+deb8u4
Severity: important

[I filed this before, but I saw I set my E-Mail to avar@localhost, so
 it was probably auto-rejected, can't find it in the BTS]

I'm not even sure if this is a systemd bug, especially given
#803970. If you know about something that automatically edits
/etc/vconsole.conf that isn't systemd please forward this report to
that package.

Occasionally when I update my packages my vconsole.conf will be
changed like this by some script:

$ cat /etc/vconsole.conf.diff 
diff --git a/vconsole.conf b/vconsole.conf
index 6574753..422787e 100644
--- a/vconsole.conf
+++ b/vconsole.conf
@@ -1 +1 @@
-KEYMAP=dvorak
+KEYMAP=is-latin1

In my GNOME settings the only keymap I have configured is Icelandic
(Dvorak). I.e. is-dvorak.

So I have no idea where this is-latin1 thing is coming from,
presumably something looks at "is-dvorak", does s/-.*//, and just
picks the first one and munges the config file to.

There are two bugs here as far as I'm concerned:

 1. That /etc/vconsole.conf is automatically edited without
asking. I'm pretty sure this violates §10.7.3
(https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s10.7.3),
see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=579752 for a
similar bug.

 2. Whatever's doing the automatic editing is clearly buggy even if it
was a guided changed configuration, because it thinks the
Icelandic Dvorak layout is the same as Icelandic QWERTY.

-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.4
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (200, 'testing'), (100, 
'unstable'), (50, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  acl 2.2.52-2
ii  adduser 3.113+nmu3
ii  initscripts 2.88dsf-59
ii  libacl1 2.2.52-2
ii  libaudit1   1:2.4-1+b1
ii  libblkid1   2.25.2-6
ii  libc6   2.19-18+deb8u4
ii  libcap2 1:2.24-8
ii  libcap2-bin 1:2.24-8
ii  libcryptsetup4  2:1.6.6-5
ii  libgcrypt20 1.6.3-2+deb8u1
ii  libkmod218-3
ii  liblzma55.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3
ii  libpam0g1.1.8-3.1+deb8u1+b1
ii  libselinux1 2.3-2
ii  libsystemd0 215-17+deb8u4
ii  mount   2.25.2-6
ii  sysv-rc 2.88dsf-59
ii  udev215-17+deb8u4
ii  util-linux  2.25.2-6

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  dbus1.8.20-0+deb8u1
ii  libpam-systemd  215-17+deb8u4

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
pn  systemd-ui  

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