Comment 3 for bug 108928

This bug is also affecting my system, upgraded via apt-get based command line instructions from 6.10 to 7.04. I have a standard keyboard attached which works fine but primary access is through VNC. System is unusable through VNC as keyboard mappings are all wrong. Tried installing FreeNX as well and while I can use the remote desktop through FreeNX it suffers from the same scrambled keys. This is a CRITICAL bug for those who primarily access an Ubuntu system through a remote desktop solution. Note that my keymapping errors vary from previous posts with 'qwerty' showing as '-^^^wq' where ^ is an unprinted control character. I also saw the dialog upon startup of a mismatch between keyboard settings in X and those in Gnome being out of sync. I chose to use the Gnome settings. Previously when I got the message I chose the X settings and both behaved the same. I have tried various settings in the System > Preferences > Keyboard with no apparent affect.