The live system of Kubuntu 10.6 Beta version has the same problem. US- Layout is selected by default even if another (german) layout was chosen in GRUB.
-- desktopCD uses 'us' keyboard layout instead of the one from the picked locale https://launchpad.net/bugs/61050 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs