Hello, In the log of Bug #751955 we can find the following comments:
== > Since one or two days, the keymap on my laptop is wrong at really early > boot when I need to input the password for my cryptsetup partion. > I encountered the exact same issue on Stretch. I just reinstalled my computer > and then just wanted to move my root LVM volume to another one. I really > don't > know what I did wrong since it's not the first time I'm doing such things but > well I may have done something bad that messed it up.... > The problem first appeared when I updated from Debian 8.0 to 8.1 - so there > might > be a lot of users affected. > Just had this on a recent Jessie install. The culprit seems to be the absence > of XKBMODEL in /etc/default/keyboard. > Some days ago, probably after an update, I suddenly had a rough time entering > my > password on boot > In my case changing keyboard layout settings in Gnome resulted in the > XKBMODEL > being deleted from /etc/default/keyboard. == In all cases the problem seems to be caused by errors in /etc/default/keyboard. It is known that gnome-control-center (and possibly other configuration programs based on systemd/localed) erase the value of XKBMODEL from /etc/default/keyboard. On the other hand, for Björn Siebke the problem seems to have arised after upgrade from Debian_8.0 to Debian_8.1. Since Debian_8.0 and Debian_8.1 use identical versions of console-setup, some other package must have corrupted /etc/default/keyboard but I have no idea which one. Therefore, I'd like to ask you: Have you observed this bug in situations when you are certain you haven't used gnome-control-center or some other configuration program based on systemd/localed? Anton Zinoviev