keyboard settings not applied

[Thomas Schweikle]

Global keyboard settings are set in /etc/defaults/keyboard:

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="de"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch,compose:menu,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
BACKSPACE="guess"

These settings are not active any more after upgrading from focal to groovy. Same applies if upgrading from groovy to hirsute. The file /etc/defaults/keyboard is untouched, but any console uses an US keyboard.
Same applies for X11-Sessions: all users have their keyboard defaulted to US layout. Any other layouts configured for any user vanishes. Configurations have to be done again as it they never where set.

For all users settings -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Layout is set to use system-wide keyboard settings. This is set to US layout. This seems not changeable at all! If this depends on file /etc/defaults/keyboard. It does not respect this file.

There has to be a way to set some other keyboard layout system-wide. Not only for one session or one user! And: this setting shall not be overwritten by upgrading. And it shall not be ignored after upgrading!

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10
Package: console-setup 1.195ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-43.49-generic 5.8.18
Uname: Linux 5.8.0-43-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu50.5
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
Date: Mon Feb 15 12:10:46 2021
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-31 (2572 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: console-setup
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to groovy on 2018-11-23 (814 days ago)

[Thomas Schweikle (tps)]

Solved with a later version of required packages

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thanks, closing since it's fixed