Comment 18 for bug 550402

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 548891, so it is being marked as such. Any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

As noted in bug 548891, the workaround is to reset your keyboard model by running "sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup" (without the quotes) on your affected Lucid virtual machines.