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[Simon Ritchie <simonritchie.uk@xxxxxxxxx>]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1240198 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1240198

This bug has suddenly become a lot more serious.  It appears that it now
affects machines that have applied a standard Linux software update.

I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 (the current standard).  I use a UK keyboard
layout.  I applied an upgrade and rebooted, and the "@" key and the
doublequote key were swapped.  Uninstalling ibus and rebooting fixed the
problem.

If I understand the issue, it affects anybody with a non-US keyboard,
and different characters will be swapped depending on what keyboard
layout they use.

The problem is that if the user's password contains one of the swapped
characters, they will not be able to log in after upgrading and
rebooting.  They logged in successfully last time, so they will simply
see a single box on the screen requesting their password.  What they
type will not be displayed, obviously.  They type their password and the
system will reject it.  Until they know what the problem is, and which
characters get swapped on their keyboard, they can't log in to fix the
problem.

This could affect several million Linux users around the world and
render their machines useless.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1284635

Title:
  IBus does not support certain keyboard layouts

Status in ibus package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in ibus source package in Trusty:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  installed trusty beta1 with keyboard layout set correctly during
  install

  install completes, login to new install - layout as set during install

  once logged in - layout set to US and keyboard layout set during
  install is missing from list

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: keyboard-configuration 1.70ubuntu8
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-12.32-generic 3.13.4
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-12-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu5
  Architecture: i386
  CurrentDesktop: XFCE
  Date: Tue Feb 25 12:55:56 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-02-25 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha i386 (20140225)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: console-setup
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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