Login doesn't use correct keyboard settings [Dvorak]

Thank you for your bug report, was it working correctly before today? what did you update? what is contained in /etc/default/keyboard?

Yes, it worked correctly before the last reboot (about 2 days ago). Not sure what all was updated, but I updated everything that was available for update. I'm running Precise, so lots of packages.

jderose@jgd-ws:~$ cat /etc/default/keyboard
# If you change any of the following variables and X is configured to
# use this file, then the changes will become visible to X only if udev
# is restarted. You may need to reboot the system.

# The following variables describe your keyboard and can have the same
# values as the XkbModel, XkbLayout, XkbVariant and XkbOptions options
# in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="us"
XKBVARIANT="dvorak"
XKBOPTIONS=""

# If you don't want to use the XKB layout on the console, you can
# specify an alternative keymap. Make sure it will be accessible
# before /usr is mounted.
# KMAP=/etc/console-setup/defkeymap.kmap.gz

ok, weird, lightdm didn't change for a while and this config looks correct, do you have anything in xorg.conf?

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

this happened to me after updating the unity-greeter have to manually set keyboard lang as it defaults to english,
it also doesn't show the login options, just logs you back into your last session! ie: no ubuntu, unity, gnome , gnome fallback etc

I can report two cases :

- On French-Canadian Precise amd64 fully updated, keyboard layout is always wrong, but OK once logged in.

- On freshly installed (01-23-2012) Oneiric amd 64 fully updated, system works nicely, but once I install 3.2.0-10-generic from xorg-edgers-ppa then the kayboard layout is wrong under lightdm and once logged in.

I experienced the same thing. See my bug report #937741.

I have the opposite problem. My brother had been using Programmer's Dvorak on my system. I did an update, and now lightdm is stuck in Dvorak -- I can't go back to Qwerty because it doesn't show up in the language list at the top of the screen. However, for other accounts, it uses Qwerty and Dvorak isn't an option.