[Bug 1875062] Re: Incorrect keyboard layout for selecting username and password during install of 20.04

[Jean-Do Veuve]

I installed a fresh Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on an Oracle VM. During the
installation, I choosed “french language” and “Belgian keyboard”. Later,
the installer asked me to type my name and password and THERE the
keyboard is in Qwerty with no support of the numeric pad (Qwerty 88)

I checked it with two different install to be sure of the bug. And with
a German keyboard, same problem.

After reboot, it returns back in Keyb BE as defined.

Potential login problem :

If your name doesn’t contain any letter as “z-q-a-w or m” nor a numeric
AND neither does your password, you are fine. But if only your password
does, you’re fried because you cannot detect the problem during the
install and at the next restart : bam ! “your password is invalid”.

The work around is to type the password with the “Qwerty 88” design in
your head, a design easy to find on internet.

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Title:
  Incorrect keyboard layout for selecting username and password during
  install of 20.04

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  During a fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04, selecting Norwegian keyboard
  is provided and keys are responding correctly at that stage. But later
  when entering user information the keyboard setting is wrong.

  It looks like it have fallen back to English keyboard-layout.
  I failed to log in after my first install, so a new attempt I tried to write some special letters in the name field, and noticed that I got the wrong characters for the key.

  The install is done i VMware workstation 15.

  In the attached screendump, the characters (';[":{) after my name
  should have been (æøåÆØÅ) that is norwegian characters.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
  Package: ubiquity (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-26.30-generic 5.4.30
  Uname: Linux 5.4.0-26-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Sat Apr 25 19:27:41 2020
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed initrd=/casper/initrd quiet splash --- maybe-ubiquity
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-04-25 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  Symptom: installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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