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

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Hi Łukasz!

I tested the latest (2021-03-11) hirsute daily build and the 20.04.2
ISO.

As regards hirsute, I can no longer reproduce the issue. If nobody has
explicitly addressed this bug, the code seems to be very fragile. But
let's hope that it will work now until the release. After all the
installer is about to be replaced with new software, and it's more
important to focus on the new installer and the coming 22.04 LTS.

As regards 20.04.2, the issue (i.e. getting [ on the username/password
window instead of å when pressing the [ key) was still there for me as
previously reported. It was there when I followed your steps exactly as
well as when I accomplished a couple of other variants involving
Swedish.

Closed the hirsute task. It would be great if you could try the 20.04.2
ISO again. Do we have an annoying "sometimes" bug?

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu Hirsute)
       Status: Incomplete => Fix Released

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

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in ubiquity source package in Focal:
  Triaged
Status in ubiquity source package in Hirsute:
  Fix Released

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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