Comment 79 for bug 1875062

Dag,

Can you confirm you mean 24.04 and not 22.04, please?

On Mon, 15 Apr 2024 at 17:25, Dag Bjerkeli <email address hidden>
wrote:

> I've just tested this, and can confirm that there is a bug regarding
> keyboard layout in 22.04 beta. As this time the error also appears when
> you select the keyboard initially it could a new error.
>
> I also have a preview image of 22.04 dated mars 27th that does not have
> the error, even after updated installer.
>
>
> ** Attachment added: "Entering æøå after selecting Norwegian keyboard does
> not show correct keys"
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1875062/+attachment/5765721/+files/not%20norwegian%20in%20install.png
>
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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:
> Fix Released
> 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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> Launchpad-Bug-Tags: amd64 apport-bug focal fr-1091
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