Bug 11623

Summary: Classic Installer confuses or skips keyboard layout choice
Product: Mageia Reporter: Lewis Smith <lewyssmith>
Component: InstallerAssignee: Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: major    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: Mageia4-Beta1
Source RPM: CVE:
Status comment:

Description Lewis Smith 2013-11-08 17:11:45 CET 
1] After chosing some (?) minority language - in my case Cymraeg - the keyboard selection stage is skipped, one goes straight to disc partitioning.

2] There is a new (?) k/b selection dialogue for M4 with a pre-chosen radio-button shortlist of likely layouts guessed from the language choice, *the* most likely pre-selected. If you want a different layout and go to the 'more' screen to select it, when you return from there back to the original screen your now-hidden choice is not shown, still the pre-chosen shortlist and pre-selected layout.

So what layout do you have? Abandon the installation seems safest.

Easy to test: Start the Installer, choose e.g. Europe/British English language. At the k/b stage UK layout is pre-selected, choose 'more', French, OK. The parent screen remains unchanged.
Similar if you select Europe/French language, then 'more' UK layout, the pre-chosen French-related list remains as was.

This will stop some installations.

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:
Lewis Smith 2013-11-08 17:13:01 CET

Whiteboard: (none) => Mageia4-Beta1

Comment 1 Lewis Smith 2013-11-08 17:20:35 CET 
I have just discovered that this is similar to Bug 926; but not identical, I think. That goes back to Mag 1, and does not mention the specifics of *this* bug.
Comment 2 Manuel Hiebel 2013-11-08 19:31:25 CET 
it's https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1042

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1042 ***

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => DUPLICATE