Mageia 4 -> 5 migration polish keyboard problem

[pawko]

Hi guys,
I had a little problem with my keyboard encoding configuration after upgrade Mageia 4 to 5.
In Mageia 4 everything worked fine, but after migration to version 5 I had a problem with polish characters (ą, ę, ń, ó etc.).

I checked my system language and localization settings but everything looks normal. Then i checked my localectl status and saw that:

System Locale: LANG=pl_PL
LANGUAGE=pl_PL:pl
VC Keymap: n/a
X11 Layout: n/a

so... after that I just set my keymap: "set-keymap --no-convert pl-latin2", and layout: "setxkbmap -layout pl".
It solved the problem but... If anyone else has this issue then maybe need to report a bug?

[doktor5000]

Can you show the contents of /etc/sysconfig/keyboard please?
And please check if you have either
/etc/locale.conf
/etc/vconsole.conf
and something in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ and please post the contents of those here.

[pawko]

Sorry for one day delay:
/etc/sysconfig/keyboard:
XkbModel=pc105
KEYTABLE=pl
XkbOptions=compose:rwin
XkbLayout=pl
KEYBOARD=pl

/etc/locale.conf:
LANGUAGE=pl_PL:pl
LANG=pl_PL

/etc/vconsole.conf:
FONT=lat2-16
FONT_UNIMAP=8859-2
KEYMAP=pl-latin2

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/: empty dir

[doktor5000]

To understand it, this is after your fix described in the first post? And is it currently permanently fixed, or do you need to run this fix for every session?

[pawko]

Aww... I did not notice that because I just start my computer and paste here content of this files.

But it is true, I have to type this "setxkbmap -layout pl" for every session. The strange is that all of this files looks exactly the same before and after I type this command. I am new with linux but if I good understand this:
"setxkbmap -layout" command should be connected with XkbLayout param in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard file?

[doktor5000]

Actually the X server should do this for you. Can you show the output of

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grep -i xkb /var/log/Xorg.0.log | sort -u

And please check if you have some setting related to keyboard in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Does it help in any way if you run keyboarddrake via MCC http://doc.mageia.org/mcc/5/en/content/ ... drake.html
and change the keyboard layout to something else, and then back to your current polish latin2 layout?

[pawko]

Here is an output from Xorg.0.log

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[    11.306] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "pl"
[    11.306] (**) Option "xkb_model" "pc105"
[    11.306] (**) Option "xkb_options" "compose:rwin"
[    11.306] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[    11.354] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "pl"
[    11.354] (**) Option "xkb_model" "pc105"
[    11.354] (**) Option "xkb_options" "compose:rwin"
[    11.354] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[    11.358] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "pl"
[    11.358] (**) Option "xkb_model" "pc105"
[    11.358] (**) Option "xkb_options" "compose:rwin"
[    11.358] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[    11.362] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "pl"
[    11.362] (**) Option "xkb_model" "pc105"
[    11.362] (**) Option "xkb_options" "compose:rwin"
[    11.362] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[    11.416] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "pl"
[    11.416] (**) Option "xkb_model" "pc105"
[    11.416] (**) Option "xkb_options" "compose:rwin"
[    11.416] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[    11.419] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "pl"
[    11.419] (**) Option "xkb_model" "pc105"
[    11.419] (**) Option "xkb_options" "compose:rwin"
[    11.419] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"


I didn/t find anything connected with keyboard in Xorg.conf. There is only info about ServerFlags, Monitor and GraphicCard.

Changing layout using keyboarddrake did not help me too .

I have another strange problem. I can't open my console window normal way. I'm using Gnome and when I try to click "terminal" then mouse changes to carousel icon, terminal appears in "gnome task bar" and... disappears. I could only open my console window using Mageia Control Center -> System -> Open console as administrator.

I know this probably isn't connected with keyboard problem but don't makes my life easier.

[doktor5000]

IMHO the issue is that there is some confusion between the settings in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard which has normal pl layout and /etc/vconsole.conf which has your expected pl-latin2 layout. But re-reading your first post also confuses me. You write that you select pl-latin2 layout via localectl set-keymap and via loadkeys you load the normal pl layout ... now which is the one you want? Or do you want a different layout under X compared to console keyboard layout?

Can you also try the following please

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cp /etc/sysconfig/keyboard /etc/sysconfig/keyboard.old && rm -f /etc/sysconfig/keyboard
cp /etc/vconsole.conf /etc/vconsole.conf.old && rm -f /etc/vconsole.conf

Then run keyboarddrake again, select your layout, save and reboot an show the two newly created files here.

[doktor5000]

FWIW and for a pretty similar issue with polish layout, please see http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions ... yout-to-pl
Especially http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions ... 483_172401 - please provide one test case what you enter, what you expect to get and what you get.

[pawko]

Hi, I'm changing my apartment so I'm in the middle of relocation and did not check forum for few days but... Before you write this last two posts I was 'fighting' with keyboarddrake little more and now everything is ok. I added english keyboard configuration, and now i have this language switch on my bar.



But polish is set as default and works fine permanently.

I had to do something wrong before. As you said above it could be some mixed up between pl and pl-latin2. I'm new with linux so at this moment I make a lot of basic mistakes.

Sorry for bothering you, and thanks for your help.

[doktor5000]

You're welcome
Please mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [SOLVED], thanks