Bug 9661

Summary:	Can not switch on default layout when add user
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Roman Zakharenkov <mylittlemail>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal	CC:	loginov_alex, marja11, pablo, thierry.vignaud
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	drakx-installer-stage2, gtk+3.0	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Roman Zakharenkov 2013-04-08 14:07:45 CEST

Description of problem: I want to install Mageia 3 beta 4. On start screen choose Russian language. When I got to the step "Add user", I can not choose default (English) layout, only Russian. But username must be in English. Right Control button do not work too. In this way I can not complete the installation. There are no "Back" button, only "Next".


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. On start screen press F2 and choose Russian. Next "Install Mageia 3".
2. Get to step 5 (Users - Add user - Login).
3. Try to change layout.


Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Thierry Vignaud 2013-04-08 21:46:08 CEST

Did you mean the live cd or the dvd installer?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud

Comment 2 Roman Zakharenkov 2013-04-09 11:02:59 CEST

DVD installer.

Manuel Hiebel 2013-05-28 22:59:27 CEST

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)
Source RPM: (none) => drakx-installer-stage2

Comment 3 Thierry Vignaud 2013-05-29 17:49:04 CEST

As a workaround, can you:
- go to the second terminal (alt + ctrl + f2)
- then run the "setxkbmap us" command in order to switch to Qwerty keyboard layout (aka US)

Comment 4 Samuel Verschelde 2015-05-17 20:05:19 CEST

Roman, 2 years ago Thierry asked a question to you, but you haven't answered. Does it mean we should close this bug report?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 5 Thierry Vignaud 2015-05-19 14:18:32 CEST

Pablo, how to handle switching for such languages

CC: (none) => pablo
Source RPM: drakx-installer-stage2 => drakx-installer-stage2, gtk+3.0

Comment 6 Thierry Vignaud 2015-05-27 08:46:33 CEST

@Roman: how do you change layout on your desktop?
With a keyboard combination or with a graphical tool?

BTW the full work around is:
- go to to tty2 (alt+ctrl+F2)
- run "setxkbmap en"
- got to back to GUI (alt+ctrl+F5)
- type in in english
- go to to tty2 (alt+ctrl+F2)
- run "setxkbmap ru" for switching back to Russian mapping

Comment 7 Marja Van Waes 2015-09-22 21:08:08 CEST

@ Roman

If the problem still exists in Mageia 5, could you then please try Thierry's instructions?

(In reply to Thierry Vignaud from comment #6)
> @Roman: how do you change layout on your desktop?
> With a keyboard combination or with a graphical tool?
> 
> BTW the full work around is:
> - go to to tty2 (alt+ctrl+F2)
> - run "setxkbmap en"
> - got to back to GUI (alt+ctrl+F5)

That looks like a typo, for me th GUI is always on alt+ctrl+F7

> - type in in english
> - go to to tty2 (alt+ctrl+F2)
> - run "setxkbmap ru" for switching back to Russian mapping

an go back to the the GUI to finish install.


CC'ing AlexL, who might be able to reproduce the issue, or know how to toggle the keyboard layout in stage2

CC: (none) => loginov_alex, marja11

Comment 8 Alex Loginov 2015-11-01 21:32:00 CET

It was for mga3 and not always reproducible: some users confirmed, but another did not. This bug is not present in mga5. So this bug is old.

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