[OpenIndiana-discuss] NWAM / keyboard issues

[Rob McMahon]

  First, thanks to the OpenIndiana people.  It's just what we've all 
been waiting for, and I now have it installed on my laptop at home, a 
Toshiba Satellite Pro P300 (which is where I am just now), and my 
workstation at work, a Sun Ultra 20 M2.

Two things have been biting me.  On my (UK) laptop the keyboard layout 
is all over the place.

bash-4.0$ lshal | fgrep input.x11
   input.x11_driver = 'mouse'  (string)
   input.x11_options.XkbVariant = ''  (string)
   input.x11_options.XkbLayout = 'us'  (string)
   input.x11_options.XkbModel = 'sun_type6_usb'  (string)
   input.x11_options.mdriver = 'hotkey'  (string)
   input.x11_driver = 'kbd'  (string)
   input.x11_options.XkbRules = 'base'  (string)
bash-4.0$

It means <>"\|~@#£ are all moved around.  I guess I can mess around with 
configuration files, but how should this work automatically ?

Worse is the new NWAM functionality.  On my laptop talking wireless it 
almost worked, until I tried to set up a Home location when it decided 
to replace nsswitch.conf with /etc/nodename (!).  That didn't work so 
well, and I certainly didn't enter that as an option.

My workstation was worse, though.  It's configured with NIS + DNS and 
NFS filestore.  It took me a few iterations of fixing nsswitch.conf and 
rebooting before I realised NWAM was replacing it with nsswitch.files.  
Looking at the NWAM configuration it was referring to 
/etc/svc/volatile/nwam/User/nsswitch.conf, which didn't exist.  There 
was a .../Legacy/... file which was my old copy, and copying that to 
.../User/... (and to /etc/nsswitch.conf) got me halfway there.  I think 
the handling of nsswitch.conf is rather fragile for such a fundamental file.

Fixing that and running `sharectl -p nfsmapid_domain=... nfs' to match 
what used to be in /etc/default/nfs has got me back working.

Anyway, I just need to sort out my keyboard mapping, and I'll be a happy 
bunny.

Thanks for all your work.

Rob