Filesystem corruption - Problem strikes again

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 16:28:23 -0400, Little Girl wrote:
>The Linux Mint forum suggestion for typing out your password in a
>text editor (or into a field that doesn't hide the characters) to
>look at it and make sure it looks right might help. I've occasionally
>left the caps-lock key on when it should have been off or vice versa
>and/or forgotten to add punctuation or characters to a password even
>when it's one I use regularly. Maybe you're having the same type of
>issue at the moment.

Linux installs are prone to broken keyboard layouts. It's not an issue
for conservatives installs, using an xorg.conf for the global keyboard
layouts and no bloated environment or fishy tools, but especially for
Ubuntu flavour defaults a stable keyboard layout could be a PITA. I
noticed the Ubuntu flavour pitfalls when writing scripts to set up live
media. The way global and local keyboard layouts are set does change
for Ubuntu flavour releases. A script working for one live media, could
be broken for another live media. In short, if the used keyboard
shouldn't be an international en_us layout and a user didn't manually
set up a conservative configuration, but used the recommended tools and
Ubuntu flavour defaults, easily could end up with inconsistent keyboard
layouts for the display manager, terminal and graphic user session and
the best with this is, sometimes the keyboard layouts could be ok, while
randomly they could be inconsistent.

Step by step I set up my Arch (really KISS) and Ubuntu (as much KISS as
possible with Ubuntu) from minimal installs without a GUI environment at
all, to avoid such pitfalls as inconsistent keyboard layouts.

If somebody does use a completely non-KISS default Ubuntu {,flavour}
install and add some own special setups, I wouldn't be surprised
about inconsistent keyboard layouts.