Bug#956501: console-setup: keyboard layout in /etc/default/keyboard is not set correctly on startup

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 00:31:29 -0400 Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: console-setup
> Version: 1.195
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not sure if this is a problem with console-setup or
> keyboard-configuration.
> 
> ~$ cat /etc/default/keyboard 
> # KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE
> 
> # Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.
> 
> XKBMODEL="pc105"
> XKBLAYOUT="us,il"
> XKBVARIANT="dvorak,"
> XKBOPTIONS="terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,grp:alt_shift_toggle,ctrl:swapcaps"
> 
> BACKSPACE="guess"
> 
> Until recently, these settings were all correctly set on system startup,
> but the keyboard layout settings are currently not set correctly on
> startup:
> 
> ~$ setxkbmap -query
> rules:      evdev
> model:      pc105
> layout:     us
> variant:    dvorak
> options:    terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,grp:alt_shift_toggle,ctrl:swapcaps

Additionally: I checked /var/log/Xorg.0.log (attached), and it claims
that the options are indeed set correctly. But the fact is that they
are not, as per the above "setxkbmap -query" command.

Celejar