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

[Coeur Noir]

I faced the same problem while installing Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04.

No VM here. And French for locale.

It's OK if I first « try without installing » in my language, then later launch the installer.
In this scenario, no problem with keyboard at the username/password stage, it remains french/azerty.

It's not OK when I go straight to « install ». Ubiquity stops using french/azerty keyboard at username/password stage.
And once there, there is no way to go back or abort safely.

By chance rough power off had no dramatic consequence.

Reproducible any time. And also with UbuntuBudgie ( and I guess any
flavor using Ubiquity ).

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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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