garbled character appears on the screen after inputting the passphrase of the encrypted hard disk during the boot process

Bug #1067348 reported by Victor Zhou
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
plymouth (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Medium
Steve Langasek
Quantal
Won't Fix
Medium
Steve Langasek

Bug Description

build: quantal 20121014
arch: i386

Step to reproduce the issue:
1. install the quantal iso with choosing Simple Chinese as the installation language, and select the option "Encrypt the new Ubuntu installation for security" and "use lvm with the new ubuntu installation" in the installation type page
2. input a password and select the "overwrite empty disk space " in the "choose a security key" page
3. in "where are you?" page, choose "shanghai" as your city
4. in "who are you?" page, input your user name and password, and select "encrypt my home folder" option
5. after your installation, reboot the system, and then you will be asked to input the passphrase of the disk during the boot process. input the passphrase, and in the next step, you will find that garbled character appears on the screen, refer to the attached picture for detail

Revision history for this message
Victor Zhou (victor.zhou) wrote :
affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu) → upstart (Ubuntu)
tags: added: rls-q-incoming
summary: - garbled character appears on the screen after inputting the password of
- the encrypted harddisk during the boot process
+ garbled character appears on the screen after inputting the passphrase
+ of the encrypted hard disk during the boot process
Colin Watson (cjwatson)
affects: upstart (Ubuntu) → plymouth (Ubuntu)
Changed in plymouth (Ubuntu Quantal):
milestone: none → quantal-updates
tags: removed: rls-q-incoming
Changed in plymouth (Ubuntu Quantal):
importance: Undecided → High
Revision history for this message
Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

This is a matter of missing font support in the initramfs. We probably need to make the initramfs hook more clever about which fonts it copies into the initramfs based on the language that's configured.

Changed in plymouth (Ubuntu):
importance: High → Medium
milestone: quantal-updates → none
status: New → Triaged
Steve Langasek (vorlon)
Changed in plymouth (Ubuntu Quantal):
assignee: nobody → Steve Langasek (vorlon)
milestone: none → quantal-updates
Revision history for this message
Victor Zhou (victor.zhou) wrote :

more information:
This issue only appears at the first time boot after the installation, and we can not find it at the 2nd or later boot.

description: updated
Revision history for this message
Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote :

quantal has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the quantal task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".

Changed in plymouth (Ubuntu Quantal):
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
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