Fixed: Re: anaconda: us keyboard map messed up?

David Timms dtimms at bigpond.net.au
Tue Feb 7 10:36:16 UTC 2006


Richard Hally wrote:

> G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
>
>> I went to do a test install of today's rawhide (2006-02-06) and
>> everything went fine until I had to type in the name and numbers for the
>> NFS location of my local mirror.  The number keys and the / symbol keys
>> were quite thoroughly messed up, putting in control and above-ascii
>> chars in the entry fields.
>> ...
>> Does anyone else see this problem?
>
Yes, also on http/ftp install: I think the selection versus the list 
position was one spot out, so while it looked like you selected the 
default us english, the other was selected.

>> This is from an earlier thread ("trying to install rawhide"):
>
> On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 02:43 +0100, Erwin Rol wrote:
> > > I have been trying to install the current rawhide on a older 
> machine, to
> > > test if it works (my current rawhide machine is just an yum updated
> > > FC4).
> > >
> > > But I don't get very far, It boots OK, than i get the language and
> > > keyboard selection. I select US keyboard and than my A and Q and my W
> > > and Y keys are switched, and probably a lot of other keys too.
>
> > > Ignoring the weird keyboard i select http install, and than get the
> > > Message "Running anaconda, The Fedora System Installer - please wait"
> > > and pretty much directly after that "install exited abnormally" and
> > > there my install adventure is over.
>
> Hmm, can you switch to tty3 and see what the last thing printed there?
>
> > > It anybody actually using/testing the install system, or is it just
> > > there for show until the next test release is here ?
>
> We're testing and fixing things as fast as we can -- unfortunately,
> we're not perfect yet  :-)   Jeremy

Keyboard fixed in todays boot.iso, but now other problems instead with 
text install.




More information about the fedora-test-list mailing list