[SOLVED] en-us keymap broken on 5.1

[Cameron L]

Using the noVNC console on 5.1, I found that the '|' character wouldn't show up when I pressed the key (using a standard (Lenovo US) keyboard. Trying all keys, the '<' and '>' characters also both showed '>'. These problems didn't exist on an older proxmox 4.x cluster.

I tracked this down to recent changes to /usr/share/kvm/keymaps/en-us

The following patch fixed this for me:

diff -u /tmp/en-us /usr/share/kvm/keymaps/en-us
--- /tmp/en-us 2018-05-01 11:16:21.176443031 -0400
+++ /usr/share/kvm/keymaps/en-us 2018-05-01 11:36:07.876147868 -0400
@@ -344,10 +344,10 @@
# evdev 85 (0x55): no evdev -> QKeyCode mapping (xkb keysym NoSymbol)

# evdev 86 (0x56), QKeyCode "less", number 0x56
-less 0x56
-greater 0x56 shift
-bar 0x56 altgr
-brokenbar 0x56 shift altgr
+#less 0x56
+#greater 0x56 shift
+#bar 0x56 altgr
+#brokenbar 0x56 shift altgr

# evdev 87 (0x57), QKeyCode "f11", number 0x57
F11 0x57

 

[dcsapak]

do you have set the keyboard for the vm or in datacenter -> options ?
if yes, please set both to 'default' since this setting is not really necessary anymore

 

[Cameron L]

Datacenter > Options > Keyboard layout is "English (USA) (en-us)". To the best of my knowledge, I did not explicitly set it thusly.