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I recently installed Lubuntu on one of my old PCs, and put in a password in English. The next time I opened my computer and was asked for my password only the Hebrew keyboard was available, leaving me unable to log in.

Eventually I learnt that you can change your administrator password through the BIOS menu, unfortunately it appears that menu is also stuck on Hebrew, leaving it in a nonfunctional state.

Does anybody know how I could revert my typing language back to English, either in the login screen, or in the BIOS menu?

Thanks for the help!

Omri
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  • Login with LiveCD (Try Ubuntu without Installing)

  • Mount your root partition in read/write mode: sudo mount -t ext4 /dev/sdXY /mnt -o rw

  • Edit your /mnt/etc/default/keyboard file. Mine is:

      $ cat /etc/default/keyboard 
  XKBLAYOUT="us,ua,ru"
  XKBVARIANT=",winkeys,"
  BACKSPACE="guess"
  XKBMODEL="pc105"
  XKBOPTIONS="grp:toggle,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,grp_led:scroll"

And you could also change your /mnt/etc/default/locale to:

    $ cat /etc/default/locale 
    #  File generated by update-locale
    LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8
    LANGUAGE=en_GB

I generated it by

sudo update-locale LANGUAGE=en_GB
sudo update-locale LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8
. /etc/default/locale

If that will not help, then you could try chrooting your system and execute

sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
Gryu
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