GNU bug report logs - #40273
installer: No way to input Latin characters with non-Latin keyboard layouts

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Package: guix;

Reported by: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>

Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 13:43:01 UTC

Severity: important

Done: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe <at> gmail.com>

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 40273 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40273: installer: No way to input Latin characters with non-Latin keyboard layouts
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 17:28:44 +0200

Hi!

Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe <at> gmail.com> skribis:

> * Shepherd is using /dev/console as an output and some messages are
>   polluting the help line displayed at the bottom of the screen. I'm not
>   sure how to solve it.
>
>   Shepherd could poll /dev/log so that once syslog is available it stops
>   using /dev/console.

That’s exactly what it does, see (shepherd comm).

Perhaps we just need to have the installer service depend on ‘syslogd’,
at which point nothing goes to /dev/console?

Ludo’.
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