[Bug 1477394] Re: During boot with GRUB2, command keymap is accepted but has NO effect

[Etienne URBAH]

Inside https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Talk:GRUB :
I have read that the 'terminal_input' command may be useful for GRUB2 to accept custom keyboard layouts.

Inside GRUB2 command line interface, following commands are accepted, but at the end, GRUB2 still handles my USB keyboard as 'en_us' :
  terminal_input --append at_keyboard
  insmod keylayouts
  keymap fr_oss

In particular, after that, following command makes GRUB2 unresponsive :
  terminal_input --remove console

Is 'at_keyboard' correctly implemented ?

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Title:
  During boot with GRUB2, command keymap is accepted but has NO effect

Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I have a French keyboard, and I have generated a GRUB keyboard file with following command :
  #  grub-kbdcomp  -o /boot/grub/layouts/fr_oss.gkb  fr  oss

  Then inside GRUB2 command line interface, following commands are accepted, but GRUB2 still handles my USB keyboard as 'en_us'  :
    insmod  keylayouts
    keymap fr_oss

  
  I order to reproduce this bug :
  -  You need any keyboard which is NOT 'en_us',
  -  You can put following code in '/etc/grub.d/40_custom', issue 'sudo update-grub', then reboot :
  KEYBOARD_GRUB_FOLDER="/boot/grub/layouts"
  KEYBOARD_LAYOUT="$(setxkbmap -query  |  grep -i '^ *layout *:'  |  sed -e 's/^ *layout *: *//i')"
  KEYBOARD_VARIANT="$(setxkbmap -query  |  grep -i '^ *variant *:'  |  sed -e 's/^ *variant *: *//i')"
  KEYBOARD_SPEC="$KEYBOARD_LAYOUT"_"$KEYBOARD_VARIANT"
  KEYBOARD_PATH="$KEYBOARD_GRUB_FOLDER/$KEYBOARD_SPEC.gkb"
  grub-kbdcomp  -o "$KEYBOARD_PATH"  "$KEYBOARD_LAYOUT"  "$KEYBOARD_VARIANT"  2>&1  |  \
    grep -v '^Unknown keyboard scan '  > /dev/stderr
  if [ -f "$KEYBOARD_PATH" ]; then
    echo "# Try to tell GRUB to use the adequate keyboard layout"
    echo "insmod keylayouts"
    echo "keymap $KEYBOARD_SPEC"
  fi

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
  Package: grub2-common 2.02~beta2-22ubuntu1.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-23.24-generic 3.19.8-ckt2
  Uname: Linux 3.19.0-23-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: X-Cinnamon
  Date: Thu Jul 23 06:45:21 2015
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-07-20 (2 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422)
  SourcePackage: grub2
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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