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

[Nicolas Mouart]

Same problem during installation using Hirsute Hippo 21.04 Desktop ISO
image on virtualbox 6.1.

I choose "Français" at the beginning and setup changes correctly to
French language.

Then I pick "French" (topmost choice in keyboard mapping list) at the
keyboard layout stage and I can confirm in the text bar, underneath the
mapping list on the same screen, that the keyboard mapping is correct
(AZERTY).

Then during partitioning, I choose automated partitioning with LVM and
Encryption

First issue : Keyboard mapping is set back to US layout (confirmed by trying change the location of the security key and typing in the contextual folder path ). 
NOTE: All steps are displayed in French language as expected.


Second issue : Again, during creation of the first user, the keyboard mapping is also set to US and not French.

Upon restart, the disk decryption fails since the keyboard mapping was
wrong during setup.


=> It seems the problem happens just after the change of keyboard mapping, it is not taken into account. 

Workaround : I typed the desired password in US mapping.

IMPORTANT: Using the workaround,  after restart at the end of
installation, the mapping is correct from then on (disk decryption and
login, etc ...).

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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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