Re: Installer: Annotate that the LUKS-encryption password for full disk encryption will be typed in English keyboard layout

Thank you Takashi,
I will then report it as a bug once I find the time for it..

Regards


On Sunday 25 May 2014 09:17:57 Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Sat, 24 May 2014 23:36:30 +0200,
> 
> David Schultz wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have a suggestion regarding the installer. I hope this is the right
> > place:
> > 
> > If you chose to encrypt your full disk (exept /boot) using LUKS and LVM,
> > you set the password right in the installer, typing in the chosen
> > keyboard layout. Yet when you then go on booting the fresh system, 
you
> > type in English layout, which will cause passwords with certain special
> > chars to be rejected if you do not know about this.
> > That way, I myself got convinced that it would be a good idea if the
> > installer gives an annotation on that behaviour. This really can save
> > numerous reinstallations as that circumstance is not quite blatant.
> 
> It can be regarded as a bug, so it'd be better to be reported to
> Bugzilla.  Or, if you'd like to lead to more general discussions,
> opensuse-factory ML would be more appropriate place, I think.
> 
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Takashi

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