[Bug 1553147] [NEW] xenial preseed cannot set keyboard layout

[Schlomo Schapiro]

Public bug reported:

Using network booted preseed with the following lines to configure
keyboard layout:

d-i console-setup/ask_detect false
d-i keyboard-configuration/layoutcode string de
d-i keyboard-configuration/layout select German
d-i keyboard-configuration/modelcode string pc105

System comes up with US keyboard only (see screenshot).

Content of /etc/default/keyboard:
XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT=""
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS=""
BACKSPACE="guess"

Content of /etc/default/console-setup:
ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]"
CHARMAP="UTF-8"
CODESET="guess"
FONTFACE="Fixed"
FONTSIZE="8x16"
VIDEOMODE=

The same preseed file works on wily and successfully configures a German
keyboard layout.

The full preseed file can be found at
https://github.com/jschule/ubuntu/blob/gh-pages/preseed/jts.txt

Please advice how to set German keyboard layout with preseed
installation.

** Affects: installation-guide (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Attachment added: "content of /etc/default/keyboard and /etc/default/console-setup and output of lsb_release -a"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1553147/+attachment/4588254/+files/xenial%20preseed%20cannot%20set%20keyboard%20layout.png

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Title:
  xenial preseed cannot set keyboard layout

Status in installation-guide package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Using network booted preseed with the following lines to configure
  keyboard layout:

  d-i console-setup/ask_detect false
  d-i keyboard-configuration/layoutcode string de
  d-i keyboard-configuration/layout select German
  d-i keyboard-configuration/modelcode string pc105

  System comes up with US keyboard only (see screenshot).

  Content of /etc/default/keyboard:
  XKBMODEL="pc105"
  XKBLAYOUT=""
  XKBVARIANT=""
  XKBOPTIONS=""
  BACKSPACE="guess"

  Content of /etc/default/console-setup:
  ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]"
  CHARMAP="UTF-8"
  CODESET="guess"
  FONTFACE="Fixed"
  FONTSIZE="8x16"
  VIDEOMODE=

  The same preseed file works on wily and successfully configures a
  German keyboard layout.

  The full preseed file can be found at
  https://github.com/jschule/ubuntu/blob/gh-pages/preseed/jts.txt

  Please advice how to set German keyboard layout with preseed
  installation.

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