[Bug 1559507] Re: Keyboard selection is missed

[Diogo Matsubara]

I think I might have found the issue for this. In
http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/15473092/, I have the partial syslog output
from the ISO install, from the moment the language is chosen up to cd-
rom detection step. In lines 22 to 24 you can see that setupcon is
called but it errors out with because gzip is not available in that
environment.

Mar 22 16:22:59 main-menu[250]: INFO: Menu item 'console-setup-udeb' selected
Mar 22 16:23:00 main-menu[250]: (process:1203): /etc/console-setup is not writable. No files will be saved there.
Mar 22 16:23:00 main-menu[250]: (process:1203): gzip is not accessible. Will not save cached keyboard map.

If you drop into a shell in the installer environment and run setupcon --help, you get:
Usage: setupcon [OPTION] [VARIANT]
Sets up the font and the keyboard on Linux console.

So, I think lacking gzip in that environment makes setupcon fails which
makes the console-setup-udeb item fail to run and is quietly skipped.

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Title:
  Keyboard selection is missed

Status in debian-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Alternate image lubuntu 16.04 dated 18th March

  Following the standard test case

  1) Select English
  2) Install Lubuntu
  3) Select Language = English
  4) Select Location = United Kingdom
  5) Configure Keyboard = No

  This should then give the manual selection of keyboard layout, instead
  it goes straight to installing.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: debian-installer (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-13.29-generic 4.4.5
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-13-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: LXDE
  Date: Sat Mar 19 17:14:10 2016
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-03-19 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160318)
  Lsusb:
   Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
   Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
   Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
   Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
  MachineType: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
  MemoryUsage:
   total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
   Mem:         500232      197452       54644        2480      248136      275300
   Swap:        521212       12320      508892
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-13-generic root=UUID=14744bb9-73bb-4822-abec-46410b64c416 ro quiet splash
  SourcePackage: debian-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 04/01/2014
  dmi.bios.vendor: SeaBIOS
  dmi.bios.version: Ubuntu-1.8.2-1ubuntu1
  dmi.chassis.type: 1
  dmi.chassis.vendor: QEMU
  dmi.chassis.version: pc-i440fx-wily
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnSeaBIOS:bvrUbuntu-1.8.2-1ubuntu1:bd04/01/2014:svnQEMU:pnStandardPC(i440FX+PIIX,1996):pvrpc-i440fx-wily:cvnQEMU:ct1:cvrpc-i440fx-wily:
  dmi.product.name: Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
  dmi.product.version: pc-i440fx-wily
  dmi.sys.vendor: QEMU

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