Oops, ok. my bad. I had a serial console defined in /etc/grub.conf and /etc/inittab removed it and it works now. Thanks to all. Masoud On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 02:22:38PM -0600, Dave Lehman wrote: > > ISTR a need to run getkeymaps from a non-X terminal, eg: tty1. > > Dave > > On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 14:14, Masoud Sharbiani wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I've done enough bash-ones-head-against-monitor to track this down, and > > I don't know why that my anaconda/installer building is failing > > at ..../scripts/getkeymaps: > > AFAIK, It goes and finds fonts under /lib/kbd/i386/qwerty, then loads > > them and then runs utils/readmap.c (ok, the executable of) and it fails > > on line 39 on the following block: > > .... > > if (ioctl(console, KDGKBENT, &entry)) { > > perror("ioctl failed"); > > exit(1); > > } > > > > My own guess is that I've set my LOCALE or LANG to some bad value, but I > > unset it when I want to create a new set of installer images, and my > > LANG is 'C'. > > Could someone tell me what I am doing wrong? > > Any and all ideas are welcome, > > > > Masoud > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Anaconda-devel-list mailing list > > Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Anaconda-devel-list mailing list > Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list >