[kbd] mapscrn: cannot open map file _8859-15_

[Ken Moffat]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:27:08PM +0200, Raphael Yoshimura wrote:
> No idea ? Anyone ?
> 
 It appears to be something specific to Mageia.  Try grepping for
SYSFONTACM in your bootscripts (/etc/rc.d/init.d/*, probably) to see
how it gets used.  Not every distro uses /etc/sysconfig/i18n - it
seems to be used in distros derived from Red Hat, but it's possible
that Mageia has changed things over the years.

> >> 25.11.2012 04:53, Raphael Yoshimura wrote:
> >> > Hello all,
> >> > I'm having an annoying issue with kbd that I can't seem to resolve:
> >> > When I boot, during the boot screen after GRUB I see an error saying:
> >> > "mapscrn: cannot open map file _8859-15_"
> >> >
> >> > I'm using Mageia 2 Linux and my secondary language is Bulgarian.
> >> >
> >> > This is how my /etc/sysconfig/i18n looked like;
> >> >
> >> > SYSFONTACM=8859-15
> >> >> LANGUAGE=en_US:en
[...]
> >> >
> >> > I was having unicode issues aside, so when I enabled UTF-8 from Mageia
> >> > Control Center, the first line disappeared. Now it looks like this.
> >> >
 I still can't parse this comment - you say the first line
disappeared - presumably you mean the mapscrn error message ?
> >> > LANGUAGE=en_US:en
[...]
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > However the error still exists.

 but I don't understand *what* the error is.  Does your keyboard
work correctly in the console, or is it trashed ?
> >> >
> >> > One person running Archlinux on initramfs solved his issue this way:
> >> >
> >> > removed the keymap HOOK in the configuration file / etc /
> >> mkinitcpio.conf
> >> >> and regenerated the initramfs
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > However I'm not running Archlinux, I don't have a /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
> >> and
> >> > I'm on a ext4 not an initramfs.

 Most distros use a variant of initramfs or initrd - it lets them
build almost everything as a module, including filesystems and disk
controllers.  That part has nothing to do with the filesystem type,
it is bundled in with the kernel.  I think that you probably need to
regenerate whichever you are using whenever you change the setup.

> >> >
> >> > Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.
> >>
> >> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_2_beta2#initrd
> >>
> >> "Mageia 2 will default to dracut as tool for creating initrds (initial
> >> ramdisk, used during boot). We still provide mkinitrd for those that
> >> need that, but will only support it when used with initscripts. Users
> >> of systemd must use dracut."
> >>
> >> So for initrd you can use either the mkinitrd or dracut. It depends on
> >> the configuration. So, do you have a systemd ?
> >>
> >> You are using dracut if you have a systemd. Here's how to set up the
> >> console in dracut:
> >>
> >> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/dracut/dracut.html#_i18n
> >>
> >> Check out your /etc/vconsole.conf.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Rgrds, legion
> >>
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> >>
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> > Thanks for the fast reply.
> > I do have a "systemd" directory, however I don't have a "vconsole.conf" in
> > /etc/
> >
> > :(
> >
> >
 Legion's comment above appears to address the problem (although I've
no idea whether you should be using mkinitrd or dracut).  Are there
any mageia lists where you can ask for help on this ?  The big
questions are whether you are running systemd (probably, but now
that udev is part of systemd, the presence of a systemd directory
isn't necessarily conclusive!), and how to correctly reconfigure the
initrd on Mageia.  All of that is distro-specific.

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