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[SOLVED] Error: keymaps failed to start

Hello,
I'm new here in the forum and new to artix.
I have just installed artix-community-qt-openrc-20230215-x86_64 in an old macmini and
during the first boot it gets stuck on an error like:

keymaps           | * Loading key mappings [gb] ...
keymaps           |loadkeys: Unable to open file: pt: No such file or directory
keymaps           | * Error loading key mappings                                       [
keymaps           | * ERROR: keymaps failed to start

I see a similar thread in the link below, but I don't understand what was done in order to fix this.
https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,3035.0.html

EDIT:

I changed 'gb' to 'us' inside /etc/conf.d/keymaps
and the error is gone

But the boot is still stuck, now without any error...


Can somebody help?



Re: Error: keymaps failed to start

Reply #1 –
Have a look in /etc/conf.d/keymaps

edit the line
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keymap="gb"
to
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keymap="uk"

That is assuming you want a United Kingdom keyboard layout?

I've come across this bug before. I thought it was gone but clearly not in this case. It doesn't help that that in some places / configs in Linux it's 'gb' and in others 'uk'.

Edit:
Oh and welcome :)

Re: Error: keymaps failed to start

Reply #2 –
Hi, thank you .

yes, I figured that and fixed it (edited the original post)
but the booting is still stuck:

 

Re: Error: keymaps failed to start

Reply #3 –
Just Needed to add nomodeset to the kernel parameters.

Thank you @gripped for your input!