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

[Łukasz Zemczak]

Of course I have problems reproducing this, I tried multiple times and
got nothing. It's hard to pinpoint this without a reproducer. I'll try
to scan the code for any funny parts where it could break, but I'd at
least like to know if the problem here is with setxkbmap failing, or
ubiquity setting it to a different value at some weird moment.

If anyone is able to reproduce the issue right now, I'd welcome some logs/info from a running ubiquity instance there:
 * I'd love the ubiquity syslog from /var/log/syslog when ubiquity is running
 * Might be good to get some locale and layout info straight away. So if someone notices at some ubiquity page that the layout is wrong, opening a terminal with ctrl+alt+t and then running `setxkbmap -query` and `locale`, pasting their output here

>From the initial logs attached to the bug here I was maybe thinking that
there's some race that could cause setxkbmap maybe fail when an
invalid/incompatible locale is running, but then again I couldn't
actually lead to such situation myself. I'd really appreciate as much
logs as possible from a running system.

@Nicolas, @Michel - could you possibly help out? Thank you!

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

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in ubiquity source package in Focal:
  Triaged
Status in ubiquity source package in Hirsute:
  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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