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

[Łukasz Zemczak]

Just noting down my observations here: I think combining the new logs
with the old ones I see one suspicious thing that I already tried
investigating earlier, but now I'm more certain of it. It looks like
that after setting the locale, there's a lot of errors like:

Jan 20 20:46:18 ubuntu ubiquity: perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
Jan 20 20:46:18 ubuntu ubiquity: perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
Jan 20 20:46:18 ubuntu ubiquity: #011LANGUAGE = "nb_NO.UTF-8",
(...)
Jan 20 20:46:18 ubuntu ubiquity:     are supported and installed on your system.

My earlier guess was that due to the locale not being able to be
correctly set, maybe the keyboard layout setting via setxkbmap can also
fail due to some incompatibilities with the locale. I tried various
combinations of locale-layout though and nothing really seemed to have
had the same symptoms. Still, makes me wonder: why does that even
happen? Are the respective locale somehow not locale-gen'd?

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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:
  Won't Fix

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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