Hello,<br>First of all thanks a lot for the reply. I'm not very comfortable with mailing lists as I get lost between the lines and quotes and so on, so please excuse me if my e-mail is not written according to the best mailing list standards. I will just refer to your comments as #1, #2 etc.<br>
<br>#1: I tried "sudo grep -r -i "8859-15" /etc/rc.d/init.d/" , however the console returns and empty line. Probably meaning that the phrase wasn't found.<br><br>#2: I was referring to the file "/etc/sysconfig/i18n". Before I enabled UTF-8 support its first line was "SYSFONTACM=8859-15". After I enabled UTF-8 support, this first line from i18n disappeared after I restarted the machine. I have no idea why the i18n contained the line "SYSFONTACM=8859-15", but since it disappeared after enabling UTF-8 I thought that the bigger error which is the message "mapscrn: cannot open map file _8859-15_" that appears during boot up, might have something to do with i18n or unicode/UTF-8 settings.<br>
<br>#3: My keyboard works fine. The error is a message "mapscrn: cannot open map file _8859-15_" that appears during linux boot up. Basically it doesn't affect the performance of the OS in any way or at least not to my knowledge but I don't like errors and I want to fix it or at least understand it.<br>
<br>#4: How do I find whether I'm using initramfs or initrd ? <br><br>#5: How do I find whether I'm using systemd ? There are probably some mailing lists about mageia, however I did ask on the official mageia forum and the developers there were rather puzzled and were not able to help me.<br>
<br>Thanks in advance,<br>R.Y.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Ken Moffat <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zarniwhoop@ntlworld.com" target="_blank">zarniwhoop@ntlworld.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:27:08PM +0200, Raphael Yoshimura wrote:<br>
> No idea ? Anyone ?<br>
><br>
</div> It appears to be something specific to Mageia. Try grepping for<br>
SYSFONTACM in your bootscripts (/etc/rc.d/init.d/*, probably) to see<br>
how it gets used. Not every distro uses /etc/sysconfig/i18n - it<br>
seems to be used in distros derived from Red Hat, but it's possible<br>
that Mageia has changed things over the years.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> >> 25.11.2012 04:53, Raphael Yoshimura wrote:<br>
> >> > Hello all,<br>
> >> > I'm having an annoying issue with kbd that I can't seem to resolve:<br>
> >> > When I boot, during the boot screen after GRUB I see an error saying:<br>
> >> > "mapscrn: cannot open map file _8859-15_"<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > I'm using Mageia 2 Linux and my secondary language is Bulgarian.<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > This is how my /etc/sysconfig/i18n looked like;<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > SYSFONTACM=8859-15<br>
> >> >> LANGUAGE=en_US:en<br>
</div>[...]<br>
<div class="im">> >> ><br>
> >> > I was having unicode issues aside, so when I enabled UTF-8 from Mageia<br>
> >> > Control Center, the first line disappeared. Now it looks like this.<br>
> >> ><br>
</div> I still can't parse this comment - you say the first line<br>
disappeared - presumably you mean the mapscrn error message ?<br>
> >> > LANGUAGE=en_US:en<br>
[...]<br>
<div class="im">> >> ><br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > However the error still exists.<br>
<br>
</div> but I don't understand *what* the error is. Does your keyboard<br>
work correctly in the console, or is it trashed ?<br>
<div class="im">> >> ><br>
> >> > One person running Archlinux on initramfs solved his issue this way:<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > removed the keymap HOOK in the configuration file / etc /<br>
> >> mkinitcpio.conf<br>
> >> >> and regenerated the initramfs<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > However I'm not running Archlinux, I don't have a /etc/mkinitcpio.conf<br>
> >> and<br>
> >> > I'm on a ext4 not an initramfs.<br>
<br>
</div> Most distros use a variant of initramfs or initrd - it lets them<br>
build almost everything as a module, including filesystems and disk<br>
controllers. That part has nothing to do with the filesystem type,<br>
it is bundled in with the kernel. I think that you probably need to<br>
regenerate whichever you are using whenever you change the setup.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.<br>
> >><br>
> >> <a href="https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_2_beta2#initrd" target="_blank">https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_2_beta2#initrd</a><br>
> >><br>
> >> "Mageia 2 will default to dracut as tool for creating initrds (initial<br>
> >> ramdisk, used during boot). We still provide mkinitrd for those that<br>
> >> need that, but will only support it when used with initscripts. Users<br>
> >> of systemd must use dracut."<br>
> >><br>
> >> So for initrd you can use either the mkinitrd or dracut. It depends on<br>
> >> the configuration. So, do you have a systemd ?<br>
> >><br>
> >> You are using dracut if you have a systemd. Here's how to set up the<br>
> >> console in dracut:<br>
> >><br>
> >> <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/dracut/dracut.html#_i18n" target="_blank">http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/dracut/dracut.html#_i18n</a><br>
> >><br>
> >> Check out your /etc/vconsole.conf.<br>
> >><br>
> >> --<br>
> >> Rgrds, legion<br>
> >><br>
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> >><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > Hello,<br>
> > Thanks for the fast reply.<br>
> > I do have a "systemd" directory, however I don't have a "vconsole.conf" in<br>
> > /etc/<br>
> ><br>
> > :(<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
</div> Legion's comment above appears to address the problem (although I've<br>
no idea whether you should be using mkinitrd or dracut). Are there<br>
any mageia lists where you can ask for help on this ? The big<br>
questions are whether you are running systemd (probably, but now<br>
that udev is part of systemd, the presence of a systemd directory<br>
isn't necessarily conclusive!), and how to correctly reconfigure the<br>
initrd on Mageia. All of that is distro-specific.<br>
<br>
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