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From: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>
To: Linux console tools development discussion <kbd@lists.altlinux.org>
Subject: Re: [kbd] Broken bkeymap
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2020 12:40:29 +0200
Message-ID: <20200829104029.tjtrxas5bk5ligrr@comp-core-i7-2640m-0182e6> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1522febd-2d76-37ff-ade8-8acb6dd54d80@dokumenteundeinstellungen.de>

On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 09:26:14AM +0200, Thorben wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I'm new to the topic of keymaps and everything around it so I hope to
> find some help.
> 
> For my Gentoo I'm building my own initramfs, but last week I came across
> a strange problem: Entering my passphrase for LUKS was not possible. The
> layout was broken.
> Eventually I found out that the file generated for loadkmap did changed
> but I don't know why. The difference can be seen in this screenshot
> (just a URL as I don't want to generate huge traffic by attaching the
> file):
> https://chaos.social/system/media_attachments/files/104/723/346/690/219/791/original/a5fea93d1f356d8d.png
> 
> The first thing I noticed is that the number of null bytes changed from
> 1 to 3 (from 2 bytes to 4 bytes in total).
> 
> Can someone help me to understand why it did changed and why my
> initramfs (loadkmap via busybox) is unable to process the new file? Are
> both versions even valid?

What architecture was the initramfs image created on?
What architecture was the initramfs used on?
What are the busybox and kbd versions?

-- 
Rgrds, legion



  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-29 10:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-23  7:26 Thorben
2020-08-29 10:40 ` Alexey Gladkov [this message]
2020-08-31 18:39   ` Thorben Went
2020-08-31 20:04     ` Thorben
2020-08-31 20:44       ` Thorben

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