Bug - 'Failed to start Virtual console setup' Keyboard English (Australian)

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Hi, seems to be a bug or issue when choosing keyboard ‘English (Australian)’ during installation. It results in multiple ‘Failed to start Virtual console setup’ error messages appearing on boot (but Cachyos loads fine)

Appears to be a keymap issue. Tried solutions for other distros to no avail Failed while booting - Newbie - EndeavourOS

Temporary solution for now was to choose keyboard ‘English (US)’ when reinstalling. No errors. US keymap is identical for Australia so no issues using it instead.

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I tried to change the Locale through the KDE UI to US to test that (I shoud’ve used the keyboard setting, but US keyboard was already a priority), restarted my PC which still showed that problem. No biggie, so I went to change it back to Australian Language, and the option is gone! lol.

According to localctl, my Locale is set correctly as en_AU.UTF-8, but the KDE settings don’t appear to have the Australian English language anymore. Numbers, Time, Currency, etc all seem fine and can be changed over despite the primary language being UK English now.

Not the end of the world, just a strange and funny thing to happen.

Edit: locale.conf show the language ALSO set to en_AU.UTF-8. Maybe it’s a KDE bug?

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Same here. Three Different Computers (Lenovo C260, MacBook Air (2013), HP 15S FQ2)

All show “Failed to start Virtual Console Setup” immediately after limine with CachyOS Installed selecting English Australia Keyboard.

Can confirm that on all three machines the error does not occour when they keyboard is set to English US during CachyOS install.

The only way i’ve found to switch between the error appearing and the error not appearing is a full format and reinstall of CachyOS and selecting the other keyboard option during setup.

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For anyone willing to test to look into this issue…

Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue.

  1. Install CachyOS to the local computer.
  2. During install select Keyboard Layout English Australia.
  3. Finish the install.
  4. Boot the computer from the internal hard drive CachyOS was installed to.
  5. Just after Limine you should see the error on screen:
    [FAILED] Failed to start virtual console setup
    [FAILED] Failed to start virtual console setup
    (Yes, it appears twice on screen)

This will happen every time you boot the computer.

Current workaround:

  1. Format the computer.
  2. During install select Keyboard Layout English US.
  3. Finish the install.
  4. Boot the computer from the internal hard drive CachyOS was installed to.
  5. The computer boots without the error.

Hopefully this is enough information to get this issue into investigation and testing.

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Can confirm 100% accurate steps.

Hopefully it can be fixed.

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Any fix without format the computer and reinstall?

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No need to reformat,

sudo nano /etc/vconsole.conf change keyboard au to us

sudo mkinitcpio -P

then when asked:
==> Would you like to run ‘limine-mkinitcpio’ now? [Y/n]: y

reboot when done, fixed.

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See my comment below

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Thank you.

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I signed up to tell you that this fixed my issue as well, Thank you.

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Works :+1: