Comment 6 for bug 516524
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| Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote Re: Passphrase request at bootup doesn't work properly | #6 |
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The behavior shown in comment #3 appears to be a bug in plymouth's text plugin: when two processes (mountall and cryptsetup) are talking to plymouth at the same time, plymouth fails to correctly display the passphrase prompt, seemingly (based on what I catch sight of as things flash by) because the prompt gets overwritten by the mountall message. If I hit the spacebar the prompt is re-rendered, but some of the keypresses also appear not to be registered correctly perhaps because they're being eaten on behalf of mountall.
This bug is not reproducible with the default 'script' plugin used by the Ubuntu theme (which requires a framebuffer renderer), nor is it reproducible when mounting the root partition in the initramfs because cryptsetup is the only thing talking to plymouth at that point.
Setting importance to 'medium' because it's expected that we won't have to use the text plugin for lucid on most hardware once the framebuffer renderer is ported to work with the default VGA16 framebuffer.