Unlike what we have believed up to now, the issue is present on the 18.04.2 ISO as well, so I added a bionic bug task.
Possibly it's related to the last minute ubiquity changes before the release of 18.04. ** Also affects: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu Bionic) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu Bionic) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu Bionic) Milestone: None => ubuntu-18.04.3 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1786344 Title: Default IBus input method ignored in live session Status in gnome-settings-daemon package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in gnome-settings-daemon source package in Bionic: New Bug description: Ubuntu 18.10 iso (2018.8.7), select Simplified Chinese for booting, can't input Chinese character. From Settings -> Regions and Languages, selected Intelligent Pinyin, also could not input Chinese. --- 18.10 镜像(2018.8.7)选择简体中文开机,无法输入中文。由 Settings -> Regions and Languages,选择 智能拼音,也无法输入中文。 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/1786344/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp