Ubuntu
console-setup package

Unable to type partition unlock password with standardized french bépo layout

Bug #1919356 reported by Anisse Astier
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Bug Description

When the selected keymap is fr-bepo_afnor (XKBLAYOUT="fr" XKBVARIANT="bepo_afnor", selectable in settings or in the installer), the password prompt to unlock the partitions on boot will be in QWERTY, which you might only guess after a lot of trial and error.

I don't know how keymaps work in Ubuntu, but this might be because of this bug in ckbcomp, that generates invalid linux keymaps, which makes them fail to load:

https://bugs.debian.org/984427

The debian bug (which I reported) has an attached patch for ckbcomp to make it generate a valid keymap instead.

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