German keyboard layout is not persistent

Bug #189181 reported by Chris
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Bug Description

During Ubuntu Hardy install I selected German keyboard layout. After the first boot into Hardy the keyboard layout was US. In the keyboard control I removed the US keyboard layout and added the German keyboard layout. After a reboot the keyboard layout is again US. The keyboard control shows no entry for the US layout, German layout is selected. To change the layout back to German I have to add another German keyboad entry in the keybord control (after a reboot it is again US)

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Chris (csitter) wrote :

I found this entry

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver "kbd"
        Option "CoreKeyboard"
        Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
        Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf and changed "XkbLayout" "us" to "XkbLayout" "de". Now it works perfektly.

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fgr (f-gritsch) wrote :

same problem as reported here after updated two days ago.

I added this line to my xorg.conf:

Option "XkbLayout" "de"

And this workaround works perfect.

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SK (stephantom) wrote :

I experienced this issue too, but it seems that it was fixed a couple of days ago.
Can you still reproduce the issue with all updates installed from the Hardy repositories?

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Chris (csitter) wrote :

Great now it works, my xorg.conf still says
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
but the keyboard layout is German.

what I did:
 - updated Hardy to the current version
 - sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
 - reboot
 - changed the US layout to German in the keyboard control
 - reboot

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SK (stephantom) wrote :

I am marking this bug as Fix Released as the original problem is gone (fixed by a recent update of xserver-xorg).

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