Hi Just a suggestion does adding keymap=uk to grub solve the problem? I think xorg can also be manually configured to force a key map in xorg.conf. Joshua <div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 27, 2012 4:11 AM, "Rob" <<a href="mailto:moo.moomoo.mr@googlemail.com">moo.moomoo.mr@googlemail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> xubuntu 12.10 On a fresh install using LVM + encyption there is a installation bug with the keyboard layout. Using an encryption passphrase of say: asdfgh will work fine and upon reboot, and the system takes you to the login screen. But if you use an encryption password of asdfgh" It will fail. I believe this is because the keymap is not getting loaded before the encrypt hook? And it is defaulting to US English (rather than the UK Engligh I specified on installation). I tested by reinstalling and using: asdfgh" as the passphrase, and upon reboot, it is not accepted, but entering asdfgh@ Is accepted as the passphrase, this is due to the difference in layout from US to UK keyboards. shift + 2 = @, on a US layout shift + ' = @, on a UK layout Hope I have explained this well ... -- xubuntu-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel</a> </blockquote></div>