Bug 519739

What does /etc/sysconfig/keyboard look like?

There is no /etc/sysconfig/keyboard, so I suppose that might be the problem.
The installation was done from the i686 Live image.

The same is happening with Brazilian keyboard layout. This might be a high severity bug, since it could affect every localized installation of Fedora.

I guess this not a system-config-keyboard bug. GDM defaults to US keyboard layout even on live images created with custom kickstart files. It also defaults to US keyboard every time I try log in.

I have the same issue here, with Hungarian layout in 12 beta (x86_64 DVD install).

GDM "forgets" my keyboard layout between logins too. I'm using Norwegian and chose that during install.

(In reply to comment #5)
> GDM "forgets" my keyboard layout between logins too. I'm using Norwegian and
> chose that during install.  

Kjartan, this issue was fixed on bug #530452.

Anyway, the behavior is still broken when using kickstart files.

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
Changing version to '12'.

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I am having the same problem in Fedora 13. Is this the place to mention this?

Confirm that I have had the same issue in f13 for a UK keyboard setting.... reverts to US on login through gdm....  using gnome.

One additional strange behaviour - in GDM if I switch to the USA selection
before logging in then it uses the UK keyboard mapping!  This implies that
there may be a pair of lines or filenames swapped to the opposite of what is
required somewhere?

I think I have figured out what is going on - and that the bug is not in dgm or gnome but in the installer.

What appears to have happened is that during the install anaconda decided that the keyboard was US.  This makes no difference until a password containing non alphameric characters is entered such as the normal user password at firstboot.

Then when the user selects the UK keyboard the password has characters that did not match for any of the non alphameric characters with the UK selected keyboard.

This also explains why the screensaver requires the same characters taken from keys for the US key positions to unlock the screensaver.

To test this I switched to the UK keyboard in gnome and then reset the password using the UK normal keyboard keys.  Then after logging out and selecting the UK keyboard in gdm, login works correctly for the password.  Within gnome the UK keyboard is now retained, and the screensaver password works with the UK keys.

Hence this is definitely a bug in anaconda and not in gdm or gnome, nor in control-center I believe.

I also checked the anaconda-ks.cfg file in root and it shows that the install
keyboard was selected as "keyboard us".  This is definitely an anaconda bug and
the component should be reassigned to anaconda.

I just did another install on a different machine and I had no keyboard
problems - so I am now not sure if I perhaps did not select the UK keyboard on
the initial install - unless I reinstalled on the machine where I had the
problem I now can't reproduce the problem I had!  However the system I had uses
a usb keyboard and the others were laptops where there was no problem. If it is
my clumsiness then apologies for the noise!

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