[Bug 1875062] Re: [20.04] Keyboard layout not enabled immediately during installation when typing username/password

[Jean-Do Veuve]

@xnox

Okay, I double check on base of your remarks and I got deeper in the
tests and eliminate the other bugs in this report. Thank you for helping
to reformulate and motivate me to goes on :-)

I am more precise now and I think I may say it is exactly the same bug
in all 3 languages I checked. The selected keyboard layout is NOT
recognize at any point during the install process, period. I check 3
keyboards layout (and languages): Norwegian, French and Deutsch (aka
German) on my VM.

In other words: at no point of the install but the moment of the
selection itself, you get the keyboard layout you selected. You got a 82
US layout in the first version of 20.04, with "Groovie" it's a 102 US
layout (with numeric keypad). A little progress, so.

The original bug description said: "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." Word for word, the same remark applies
except, as I said before, that the problem appears sooner, too.

It may help to trace the bug that some problem exist in US layout too:
the keyboard layout fall to 88 touch during the install process.

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Title:
  [20.04] Keyboard layout not enabled immediately during installation
  when typing username/password

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

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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