Cannot enter password at gdm login screen in a 10.04 vmware virtual machine
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console-setup (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Bug Description
I had an up-to-date version of Ubuntu 9.10 running in a vmware fusion virtual machine (OS X 10.6.3, fusion v 3.0.2) and upgraded it to 10.04 beta 2 by running update-manager -d in a terminal window to launch the update. Things seemed to go well enough, with a few warning messages here and there (sorry, forgot to write all of them down). After rebooting the login screen appeared and I was able to click on it to get the password text box. The trouble is that nothing I typed seemed to go into the text box even though the cursor was blinking there, so I wasn't able to enter a password and log in.
This is reproducible - I created a new 9.10 virtual machine from the install cd, reran the update to 10.04, and wound up in the same situation.
Followup: I tried installing 10.04beta2 in a new VM directly from the x86 desktop install CD and got the same behavior - can't enter a password in the login dialog.
One thing I forgot to mention is that all of these virtual machines were originally created using VMWare's easy install option. It recognized ubuntu, asks for a username and password, and ran the entire setup unattended. It also installed VMWare Tools in the VM after the first reboot following the installation. I haven't tried a manual install to see if any of that is the problem.