[Bug 1553147] Re: xenial preseed cannot set keyboard layout

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

I used a slightly different test to verify that the keyboard was
correctly configured, and it looks like it is:

keyboard-configuration/layoutcode=es (on the command-line) appears to
correctly set the keyboard to the es locale.

I'm not familiar enough with all keyboards to know how to properly test
them (I mean, hitting a key and verifying that it does the right thing).
Could you give me an example for the german and finnish keyboard of some
key combination that should write a special character, so I can test
them?

Also, have you tried setting the keyboard-configuration/layoutcode value
on the command-line? If so, does it make a difference? If it does, this
may mean that instead the bug lies in preseed or something specific to
the way the keyboard configuration is preseeded.

Thanks!

** Changed in: console-setup (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

** Changed in: console-setup (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (mathieu-tl)

** Changed in: console-setup (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

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Title:
  xenial preseed cannot set keyboard layout

Status in console-setup package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Using network booted preseed with the following lines to configure
  keyboard layout:

  d-i console-setup/ask_detect false
  d-i keyboard-configuration/layoutcode string de
  d-i keyboard-configuration/layout select German
  d-i keyboard-configuration/modelcode string pc105

  System comes up with US keyboard only (see screenshot).

  Content of /etc/default/keyboard:
  XKBMODEL="pc105"
  XKBLAYOUT=""
  XKBVARIANT=""
  XKBOPTIONS=""
  BACKSPACE="guess"

  Content of /etc/default/console-setup:
  ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]"
  CHARMAP="UTF-8"
  CODESET="guess"
  FONTFACE="Fixed"
  FONTSIZE="8x16"
  VIDEOMODE=

  The same preseed file works on wily and successfully configures a
  German keyboard layout.

  The full preseed file can be found at
  https://github.com/jschule/ubuntu/blob/gh-pages/preseed/jts.txt

  Please advice how to set German keyboard layout with preseed
  installation.

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