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Inconsistent keyboard layout affecting encrypted root

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From: Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 25453-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25453: Inconsistent keyboard layout affecting encrypted root
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 05:44:31 +0000

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Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Hi Chris!
>
> ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
>
>> Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net> skribis:
>>
>>> I'm using a UK keyboard layout with a computer that I recently installed
>>> GuixSD on with a encrypted root parition. Immediately after installation
>>> when I attempted to boot in to the new system for the first time I had
>>> to enter the passphrase twice, and in doing this, first I had to use the
>>> keyboard layout under which I carried out the installation (the layout
>>> which I had intended to use), and then during the early boot stage of
>>> the system I had to enter the passphrase using a different keyboard
>>> layout.
>>
>> Currently installing a keymap is something done by the ‘console-keymap’
>> Shepherd service, which invokes ‘loadkeys’.  That happens after
>> “cryptsetup --open” has opened your encrypted root device, hence the
>> problem.
>
> This is finally fixed by commit
> ae7a316b9da0d1a50c5abdc531c68c8e98e561c9, which initializes the console
> keyboard layout straight from the initrd.

Exciting, thanks Ludo :)

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