2nd keyboard config lost after shutting Fossapup down. (SOLVED)

[cobaka]

G'day all and woof!

On my desktop I configured 'alternate (Russian) kbd' on my desktop.
I do this - as you expect - with menu -> setup -> Puppy setup -> keyboard mouse (etc).
At the end I have an Australian kdb and a Russian kbd available. I swap between these two using Left Alt and Left Shift keys.

I did this for a long time - originally on uPupBB32. Now I'm using Fossa. (Love Fossa!)

Now, these settings appear temporary - I have to re-config the second kbd when I reboot.
Can anyone tell me what's going on here?
Thank you

собака

Hardware: Gigabyte desktop, 8GiB RAM. Working well.
Operating System. Puppy Linux FossaPup 96CE. from PupSysInfo: fossapup64 9.6 (x86_64)

This may be relevant:

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# Frugal installed Puppy

title Puppy fossapup64 9.6 (sda3/SYSTEM)
  root (hd0,2)
  kernel /SYSTEM/vmlinuz    psubdir=/SYSTEM pmedia=atahd pfix=fsck
  initrd /SYSTEM/initrd.gz

[bigpup]

I have to re-config the second kbd when I reboot.

what keyboard is there and active when it boots?

I assume this is F96-CE_4 version of Puppy?
Not an earlier version of F96-CE.

I assume this is a frugal install in directory SYSTEM?

A strange name for the directory. Usually it is the name of the Puppy version.

I assume you are using a save file? or folder? and it boots with other changes still there and working?

I assume you do make sure the save is updated with the keyboard setup?

What format is the partition the save is on?

[cobaka]

Hello @bigpup

Well, it seems I put a false proposal - that my kbd settings were lost.
I just re-booted and fonts have been preserved. So NOW my complaint is false. This is what happened.
And I owe you a very big apology for wasting your time.

For many months (probably years) Puppy switched reliably between English and Russian fonts (or keyboard types) when I tapped alt+shift.
tap -> toggle font; tap -> toggle font ... and so on.
I use the Russian fonts nearly every day (to learn Russian) and the 'switch' capability always worked.
For a long time! Then - a few days ago: tap -> no Russian fonts!

Oh well, no biggie! I can reconfigure in 1 minute, I use the mouse/kbd config window.
Reconfig! Great! I have them! But after re-booting -> No Russian fonts!
Oh well ... I re-configured and bingo! I got them. Great!

But now I lost the setting twice. Better ask Bigpup what's the drum!
Well I answered your "Qs" (below) but NOW THIS IS IRRELEVANT bec. "all systems go".
Big apology for wasting your valuable time. All I can say is that the problem happened but now it's gone.

собака <- Это кириллицей и после перезагрузки.
It says: Cyrillic font available after rebooting.
I'm grateful.
At the moment my internet connection is unreliable. I better post this!!

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I understand it will be impossible to say what happened, but in the unlikely event that what I wrote before is "interesting" (it won't be ...) I preserved/send it. Again, sorry for confusion.

(1) You: I assume this is F96-CE_4 version of Puppy?
....me: How do I discover this? Below (with the first posting) I gave distro info from PupSysInfo, but how/where will I look for the info you want? But I got some more info from PupSysInfo (at the bottom).

(2) I assume this is a frugal installation into directory called SYSTEM?
.... Yes. definitely. (I got that from knowing how I installed Fossa, but also from PupSysInfo.)
.... In future I won't install to "SYSTEM". I'll call the directory FOSSA (or uPUP ...) Sorry about that name. I used it, because it has ONLY Puppy OS files.

(3) Where is the save file? Answer: The save file is called "fossapup64save-mobius".
.... This IS in the SYSTEM folder, along with "puppy_fossapup64_9.6.sfs, initrd.gz, vmlinuz (etc).
.... This is /mnt/home/SYSTEM
.... Yes. 'other changes' such as net-configuration, recent files used with Geany etc are all there.

(4) the storage device /mnt/home (i.e. sda3) is formatted as ext3.
.... according to ROX, this drive has 23GiB total. I use 4323MiB. I have 18GiB free.
.... last change time, modify time, access time was 21st of April. (I left my desktop running for a few days.)

(5) You: What keyboard is there and active when it boots?
.... Perhaps I caused some confusion here. I used the word 'second kbd'. There is not PHYSICAL second keyboard - just a switch to toggle between Cyrillic (Russian) fonts and English fonts. After I configure the kbd (using the menu--kbd & mouse setup) I tap "alt+shift" to switch between the two fonts.