Kubuntu 8.10 with wrong keyboard layout

After the upgrade to Kubuntu 8.10 the keyboard layout was invalid. I had the german layout, but the option "nodeadkeys" was not set. Because of this I had to press some keys twice before the character appeared on the screen.
Thank god we have the Internet and the following command entered in Konsole did reenable the expected behavior:

#> sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup