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

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

On 2020-06-29 21:16, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Gunnar, since there are multiple different code paths related to
> keyboard configuration, could you please clarify exactly which way
> you selected Swedish with the focal daily image?

Please note that it was the groovy daily image (from 2020-06-25) I used.

> - Did you boot under BIOS or UEFI?

UEFI

> - Which boot option did you use?

Install Ubuntu (safe graphics)

But just now I tried again, and made an observation which may be
important.

When achieving the result in comment #20 I did:

* Selected the Swedish language on the Welcome window

* When the window for keyboard layout selection showed up, the Swedish
layout was pre-selected, so I just clicked "Continue".

* In the window for entering name, password etc. the English (US) layout
was effective.

However - this is today's experiment:

* Selected the Swedish language on the Welcome window

* When the window for keyboard layout selection showed up, the Swedish
layout was pre-selected. But I still changed to some other layout, and
then changed back to the Swedish one before clicking "Continue".

* In the window for entering name, password etc. the Swedish layout was
effective.

This indicates that the issue with English (US) always being effective
when entering name, password etc. only happens if you accept the pre-
selected layout without touching other layouts, and not when you
explicitly select a layout of your choice.

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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
Status in ubiquity source package in Focal:
  Incomplete

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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