elementary OS

Keyboard layout selection gets forgotten

Bug #1081023 reported by René Vangsgaard on 2012-11-20

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1170474: Turn Num Lock OFF by default. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	elementary OS	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I just upgraded a bunch of packages 10 minutes ago, did a reboot, and now my keyboard layout is ignored. Danish is the only keyboard layout shown in System Settings.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: elementary OS 0.2
Package: elementary-desktop 1.284-0~355~precise1 [origin: LP-PPA-elementary-os-daily]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-33.52-generic 3.2.31
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-33-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu15+elementary3~precise1
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: elementary_meta
Date: Tue Nov 20 09:52:05 2012
InstallationMedia: elementary OS 0.2 "Luna" - Beta 1 amd64 (20121114)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: elementary-meta
SuspiciousXErrors:

ThirdParty: True
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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René Vangsgaard (rene-vangsgaard) wrote on 2012-11-20:

Dependencies.txt Edit (14.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (286 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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René Vangsgaard (rene-vangsgaard) wrote on 2012-11-20:

I got i working by
1. Adding English (US) layout, moving it to the top
2. Changed keyboard layout using the widget in the top bar.
3. Removing English (US) keyboard

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René Vangsgaard (rene-vangsgaard) wrote on 2012-11-21:

The bug hit me again today. After an update and a restart (with auto-login), the keyboard layout is English, even though it not is listed in "System Setting - Keyboard Layout".

Again I fixed it by adding English keyboard layout, and switching back to Danish.

Cody Garver (codygarver) on 2012-12-17

summary:

- Keyboard layout selection has no effect
+ Keyboard layout selection gets forgotten

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Jochen Fahrner (jofa) wrote on 2013-04-10:

Maybe I hit the same bug. After an update and reboot I can no longer login into lightdm. When switching to a console screen I can see that the keyboard is completely broken. I get only escape sequences instead of normal keys.
In recovery mode keyboard is ok, it's only broken with normal boot.

If there is no solution to get it working again, I will delete it from my disk and stay with Debian. :-(

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Cody Garver (codygarver) wrote on 2013-04-10:

Jofa try booting into a previous kernel.

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Jochen Fahrner (jofa) wrote on 2013-04-11:

I tried different kernels with the same result. Is there a way to reset keyboard layout to something working? I can boot into Debian/Xfce and mount the eOS partition.

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Jochen Fahrner (jofa) wrote on 2013-04-22:

I think I found the cause for my trouble. I just did an upgrade of my sons netbook and the same happend. I found that the num lock key was activated by some upgrade script, and since the netbook keyboard has no separate number keypad, some of the qwerty keys were changed.

Next week I can confirm if that was the same cause on my own netbook, but I think yes.