I'm running two Ubuntu 14.04 machines with a UK keyboard layout. This problem affects one of them but not the other - not sure why.
On the affected machine EVERY TIME I accept a system update, the keyboard layout is broken. I can fix it by uninstalling ibus and rebooting, but on the next system update, the problem comes back. On the other machine, I can apply updates without incident. Another problem is, if the user's password contains the affected keys, they will not be able to log in. It will look to them as if the upgrade has reset their password. They may look on the web for help, but they will not think to look for problems with swapped keys. If they are lucky, they may find my posting http://askubuntu.com/questions/695167 /cannot-log-in-after-software-upgrade-ibus-issue. If not, they will probably get out the rescue disk and reinstall. This does nothing for the reputation of Linux as a replacement for Windows. To add to the confusion, the first login after the upgrade will work, because the change is only applied after that. On the second and subsequent logins, they need to substitute some characters when they type their password. To sum up, it appears that this only breaks some machines, which is why there has not been a huge fuss, but those machines that it breaks get broken repeatedly, and in some cases the symptoms make the problem look much more serious than it is, causing the user to do work that is disruptive and unnecessary. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ibus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1240198 Title: [SRU]Wrong keyboard layout active after booting into desktop Status in ibus package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in ibus source package in Trusty: Triaged Bug description: [Impact] When first boot into Unity desktop, English keyboard layout is active while all other parts of the system language settings are set to another language (e.g. German). The bug is properly addressed in newer upstream releases in Vivid, but the changes is too intrusive and not suitable for being back ported in SRU. And changing the default to use system keyboard layout solves the problem. [Test Case] 1. Set the system language to something other than English, e.g. German. 2. Create a new user, log in to the Unity desktop of the new user. 3. Check the keyboard layout, it should be German instead of English. [Regression Potential] Since this changes the default value of the keyboard layout settings by using system defined as default, it avoids using ibus's built-in keyboard layout related functionality, so that this could be a regression for users rely on this certain behavior (e.g. use English keyboard while want to keep the system language settings to German), but such behavior is not expected for normal usage. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus/+bug/1240198/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
