[Bug 428282] [NEW] no longer saves the keyboard map to initrd

[Martin-Éric Racine]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: initramfs-tools

Since a while, initramfs-tools has stopped copying the keyboard map to
initrd.  As a result, if/when mounting the root filesystem fails, one is
thrown into a Busybox shell where they are suddenly expected to remember
where the keys are on a foreign country's keyboard layout, in a
situation where they really should to focus on fixing the host via
Busybox.

Looking at the changelog, I notice that explicit initramfs-tools hooks
to copy the keyboard map and binary loading tools into the initrd have
been removed, under the assumption that console-setup handles this
already.

Unfortunately, this isn't the case.

>From a user's perspective, it doesn't matter whether console-setup or
initramfs-tools handles the copying of the keyboard map and map loading
tools into the initrd, just as long as it works flawlessly. Right now,
it doesn't.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: initramfs-tools 0.92bubuntu43
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: initramfs-tools
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic i686

** Affects: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386

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no longer saves the keyboard map to initrd
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