[Bug 1719612] Re: non-us keyboard layout not setup in initramfs

[Romain Fluttaz]

Thanks !
So quick solve :

Open a terminal [Ctrl]+[Maj]+[t]

sudo ln -s /etc/console-setup/cached_UTF-8_del.kmap.gz /etc/console-setup/cached.kmap.gz
sudo update-initramfs -u

So now we can come back to a complex encryption disk password without to
have to find/guess the us correspondence !

I just remember, but in the installer, the keyboard setup is after we
choose disk encryption password. So some people who didn't know this bug
and that their keyboard where in English keyboard layout, they might not
really now their real password ! Fun !

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Title:
  non-us keyboard layout not setup in initramfs

Status in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Description:    Ubuntu Artful Aardvark (development branch)
  Release:        17.10

  In Artful the /etc/console/cached.kmap.gz file does not exists, in its place, it uses some files with more precise names susch as cached_UTF-8_del.kmap.gz. However the initramfs scripts still uses cached.kmap.gz . The consequence is that the keyboard layout remains US in the initramfs which is a problem for full encrypted installation when entering passphrase.
  Proposed solution is to make a symbolic link from  cached_UTF-8_del.kmap.gz to cached.kmap.gz. Then the initramfs tools will find the /etc/console/cached.kmap.gz file and includes it in the initramfs.

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