There is no CapsLock indication of CapsLock key using Caps Lock LED on the keyboard while using plain TTY (such as Ctrl+Alt+F1)

[N0rbert]

Steps to reproduce:

1. Have minimal Ubuntu 20.04 LTS installed with all default settings and minimal set of packages on the laptop or desktop with physical CapsLock / Caps Lock LED indicator on the case or keyboard.
2. Boot the system using default settings
3. Login to the system
4. Press <Caps Lock> key, enter some letters in CAPITALS (while CapsLock LED is on)
5. Press <Caps Lock> key again, enter some letters in lowercase (while CapsLock LED is off)

Expected results:

• CapsLock key toggles CapsLock LED, the LED state indicates current CapsLock key function

Actual results:

• CapsLock LED is always off

Downstream bug-report:

• https://pad.lv/1925141

[legionus]

According to comment #3 the bug in the dpkg package.

[N0rbert]

The bug is really in kbd package. Removal of kbd package solves the CapsLock LED issue.
The command in the comment #3 is used to remove executable bit from all kbd executables.

If you can please test and confirm this bug on any modern Ubuntu version.

[legionus]

The steps to reproduce described in this issue refer to kbd only indirectly. I am not using ubuntu, but I suspect some scripts in ubuntu are calling setleds utility with wrong arguments.

[legionus]

It looks like the issue has been resolved.

[N0rbert]

How it was resolved? By which commit? Have you tried to reproduce it in 2022?

[legionus]

How it was resolved? By which commit? Have you tried to reproduce it in 2022?

As I said earlier, I believe that the problem is not in the utility, but in how it is used in ubuntu scripts. I have nothing to do with these scripts. This is up to the ubuntu maintainers to decide.

This has been resolved as WORKSFORME.