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Description of problem: I installed Fedora and have been happily using the Dvorak keyboard layout for a long time. I recently added keyboard layout switching to make it easier to use a Yubikey (which requires Keyboard US layout). Logging into GDM now defaults to using English (US) keyboard layout (en2), not the system keyboard layout or even the Gnome default Dvorak keyboard layout (en1). This is noticable as the keyboard drop-down in the top-right of the screen shows the second keyboard layout, and it has to be changed to allow authentication to succeed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): - Fedora 25 workstation - gdm-3.22.1-1.fc25.x86_64 How reproducible: After every boot Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start computer normally 2. Attempt to login as normal 3. Password rejected due to wrong keyboard layout Actual results: GDM defaults to Keyboard (US) layout causing password failures. Expected results: GDM defaults to using the system keyboard layout, or Gnome default keyboard layout (en1) as defined by the user. Additional info: I have only noticed this happening recently, so a package update may have caused behaviour to be different. Originally I had everything set to use Dvorak and there were no issues. It is only noticable now that I have configured Gnome to allow two different keyboard layouts.
It should have added: my system default keyboard layout is Dvorak, happily accepted by LUKS etc. Only GDM seems to switch back when not requested to.
I'm seeing the same problem. The only difference is that my default keyboard is german. After logging in the keyboard is correctly set to german. [root@zinksrv ~]# dnf list installed gdm Installierte Pakete gdm.x86_64 1:3.22.1-1.fc25
This is still happening with Fedora 25 with all the latest updates applied. It's a really stupid and frustrating bug that Gnome keeps losing track of the primary keyboard layout and thinks everyone wants to use QWERTY.
After a quick search for upstream Gnome bugs, it appears this has been around for a while: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747625
I have noticed recently that this bug is occurring much less often than what it was when I logged this bug. So it appears something has changed with the various package updates I have installed, but I am unable to point to what. The bug still happens at a login if I have used the keyboard switching in a previous session. The login screen will show the default keyboard (en1, dvorak) but when the desktop loads it will be on the secondary layout (en2, qwerty).
To me the problem was solved after turning /home into a real directory. Before it was a symbolic link. I did this because of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1414157 So those two problems seem to be related. I had three systems setup with a symbolic link for /home. All 3 had this problem. After making /home a real directory on all 3 systems the problem disappeared.
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