Fails writing with Caps Lock

[johnmne]

On Ubuntu 16.04:

When clicking on the following 3 keyboard keys simultaneously:
Left-CTRL + Left-ALT + F1
Then you get to a textual terminal (CLI) where you can type commands.
But there is a problem when typing English letters with Caps Lock turned on:
Instead of English capital letters - you see squares,
so actually you can't login to your user that way
if the username/password has Capital letters.

The only method which allows you to write capital English letters
is to simultaneously click Left-Shift + 'a letter'.
That is the only method that works well.

Note that the Caps Lock key works well with the graphical terminal (pseudo / pts)
that appears on Ubuntu when hitting simultaneously:
Left-CTRL + Left-ALT + T

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I assumed the bug report is relevant to "shadow" package because that
the "/bin/login" binary comes from that package.
Package version of 'shadow' is: 1:4.2-3.1ubuntu5

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

This is not a shadow bug. It's either a bug in the graphical login manager, or X, or a terminal driver. Please re-open if it is still relevant.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Please run the terminal command

cat /etc/default/keyboard

and show us what it outputs.

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