F17-Beta: some flaws

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Tue May 8 07:01:37 UTC 2012


On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 08:48 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
> On 05/08/2012 07:50 AM, Joachim Backes wrote:
> > On 05/07/2012 11:11 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> >> On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 15:30 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
> >>> 2.
> >>>
> >>> I run system-config-keyboard within the rescue shell and changed the
> >>> keyboard to german-no-deadkeys. No error message, but still the keyboard
> >>> remains US (y/z problem and some other needed keys).
> > 
> >>
> >> Er, this sounds silly, but did you remember to chroot before running it?
> 
> Hi Adam,
> 
> This it not advisable: after "chroot /mnt/sysimage",
> system-config-keyboard is not available :-(

Then you don't have it installed. What the hell did you install exactly?
You seem to have a rather broken installation, to be honest...

> >> Why did you do this from a rescue shell?
> 
> I did this to have the comforts of the right keyboard layout! It is very
> cumbersome to work with yz-/ and some more keys on a german keyboard
> which is not correctly configured.

He's not asking why you're doing it at all. He's asking why you're doing
it from a rescue shell and not just from the installed system.
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