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[John Belton <1240198@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This problem has reappeared yesterday after quite a time but as there were no new updates I can not think of a possible cause for it to reappear. There was an update to the anacron software and I wonder if that update could have "restored" the default installation keyboard layout somehow. Clicking on my selected keyboard layout seems to have restored my preferred layout but I noticed it was reset to US keyboard layout after switching on and logging in this morning. 
I haven't had any problems with the numlock LED so far.

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Title:
  [SRU]Wrong keyboard layout active after booting into desktop

Status in ibus package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in indicator-keyboard package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix
Status in ibus source package in Trusty:
  Fix Committed
Status in indicator-keyboard source package in Trusty:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  When first boot into Unity desktop, English keyboard layout is active
  while all other parts of the system language settings are set to
  another language (e.g. German).

  The bug is properly addressed in newer upstream releases in Vivid, but
  the changes is too intrusive and not suitable for being back ported in
  SRU. And changing the default to use system keyboard layout solves the
  problem.

  [Test Case]

  1. Set the system language to something other than English, e.g. German.
  2. Create a new user, log in to the Unity desktop of the new user.
  3. Check the keyboard layout, it should be German instead of English.

  [Regression Potential]

  Since this changes the default value of the keyboard layout settings
  by using system defined as default, it avoids using ibus's built-in
  keyboard layout related functionality, so that this could be a
  regression for users rely on this certain behavior (e.g. use English
  keyboard while want to keep the system language settings to German),
  but such behavior is not expected for normal usage.

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