[Bug 1875062] Re: [20.04] Keyboard layout changes during installation before typing username/password

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Thanks a lot for your hard work with this, Benjamin. It looks promising
indeed.

While I suppose it's considered too late for the 22.04 release, I really
hope that somebody will review and merge your proposal soon after that.
If it proves to work without side issues, it could then be included in
the 22.04.1 point release.

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Title:
  [20.04] Keyboard layout changes during installation before typing
  username/password

Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
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 in VMware workstation 15.

  In the attached screendump, the characters (';[":{) after my name
  should have been (æøåÆØÅ) that is norwegian characters.

  Problem analysis
  ================

  * ubiquity installs open-vm-tools.
  * open-vm-tools calls "udevadm trigger" in it's postinst script (line 8).
  * udevadm triggers all udev rules which includes all input devices.
  * gdm-x-session reads /etc/default/keyboard and sets the keyboard layout.
  * gnome-shell sets the keyboard layout as well.

  ubiquity already sets /etc/default/keyboard, but does not change the
  keyboard layout in the GNOME session.

  Proposed solution
  =================

  Let ubiquity also configure the GNOME session to use the selected
  keyboard layout.

  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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