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I had Linux Mint 16 with English and Russian keyboard support. Upgraded to Mint 17, now I cannot get past the ecryptfs passphrase.

If I enter Grub loader I can pick "Ubuntu with Linux 3.11.0.12-generic" and I am able to enter passphrase (latin characters) but when I get to Login Screen it only types in Russian. I changed the language to US English, British English, but it has no effect. Characters are still in Russian. (see https://i.stack.imgur.com/GJTTn.jpg)

I have searched LinuxMint forums up and down...fruitless.

Recovery console also drops into Russian and I cannot login either. so basically I have no access to system whatsover.

Also: I have tried "e" grub, and set locale=en_US.UTF-8 .........NO SUCCESS I have tried LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ............ same crap I have even tried passing en_US.ASCII to kernel.... still nothing.

Is there a way to pass charset UTF-8 in Grub config to kernel?

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Considering this problem is affecting the console as well as login, it appears the system-wide settings have changed.

The key to getting around this is editing the keyboard settings by booting with a live cd/usb.

You can then edit the following file:

/etc/default/keyboard

and replacing "ru" with "en":

XKBLAYOUT="en"

A similar question & answer here: Mint login screen: wrong keyboard layout

Edit this file: /etc/mdm/Init/Default

and add the following before the last line (reading "exit 0"):

setxkbmap en

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Brendan Cody-Kenny
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    I feel like a suggestion such as this would be better served as a comment rather than an answer. – HalosGhost Jul 18 '14 at 00:23
  • I am going to try LiveCD. I don't have a blank CD on hand, so haven't tried that yet. Yeah, you're correct, once I get to the console with En keymap, i can fix this.. but getting to that console...well :) Thanks. I'll try that today. – Michael Jul 18 '14 at 12:40