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Login screen randomly reverts my default keyboard layout to en-US

Bug #1869836 reported by Olivier Tilloy on 2020-03-31

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1869835: Login screen randomly reverts my default keyboard layout to en-US. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gdm3 (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I have seen that happening randomly during the 20.04 development cycle, and I think more often in the last week or so, but never consistently: when I turn on my laptop, on the GDM greeter screen the keyboard layout that's selected is en-US, instead of my default preference (fr-bépo).

To give an example of the randomness, this is what I did this morning:
1) Cold booted my laptop, selected my user, typed my password, login got denied, looked at the keyboard layout indicator and realized it was en-US instead of fr-bépo
2) Selected fr-bépo in the indicator, typed my password again and successfully logged in (and indicator in the session remained fr-bépo as expected)
3) From the menu, rebooted laptop
4) On the GDM login screen, keyboard layout indicator was reverted to en-US, again
5) Changed indicator to fr-bépo, logged in, used gnome-terminal and apt to dist-upgrade, then rebooted laptop from menu
6) This time on the GDM login screen, my default preference (fr-bépo) was selected

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: gdm3 3.34.1-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-18.22-generic 5.4.24
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-18-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu21
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Mar 31 07:16:14 2020
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-07-02 (1367 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
SourcePackage: gdm3
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-01-12 (78 days ago)

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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote on 2020-03-31:

Dependencies.txt Edit (21.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (310 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote on 2020-03-31:

This looks similar to https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/issues/462, although that upstream bug seems to imply the problem happens systematically, whereas in my case it's random.

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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote on 2020-03-31:

I wonder how I managed to file the same bug twice, concurrently. Did I involuntarily double-click on the submit button fast enough that Launchpad hadn't greyed it out yet?