The bug still exists in the latest Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa nightlies: setting
e.g.
d-i console-setup/ask_detect boolean false
d-i keyboard-configuration/layoutcode string de
d-i keyboard-configuration/layout select German
d-i keyboard-configuration/modelcode string pc105
has no effect. The resulting system has US keyboard in /etc/default/keyboard:
XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT=""
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS=""
BACKSPACE="guess"
** Also affects: debian-installer
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1553147
Title:
xenial preseed cannot set keyboard layout
Status in debian-installer:
New
Status in console-setup package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
Using network booted preseed with the following lines to configure
keyboard layout:
d-i console-setup/ask_detect false
d-i keyboard-configuration/layoutcode string de
d-i keyboard-configuration/layout select German
d-i keyboard-configuration/modelcode string pc105
System comes up with US keyboard only (see screenshot).
Content of /etc/default/keyboard:
XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT=""
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS=""
BACKSPACE="guess"
Content of /etc/default/console-setup:
ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]"
CHARMAP="UTF-8"
CODESET="guess"
FONTFACE="Fixed"
FONTSIZE="8x16"
VIDEOMODE=
The same preseed file works on wily and successfully configures a
German keyboard layout.
The full preseed file can be found at
https://github.com/jschule/ubuntu/blob/gh-pages/preseed/jts.txt
Please advice how to set German keyboard layout with preseed
installation.
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