[Bug 1066376] Re: keyboard doesn't work to enter password with panda and encrypted partitions

[Nec]

Hi,

Sorry, but : I still have the same problem.

My laptop is a Dell Latitude E5510 with a docking station, running Xubuntu Quantal 64 bits, and it has external USB mouse and keyboard.
I'm using this same harware for a long time, and I upgraded every release since say 10.04 or before.
I never had any problem, but I payed closed attention to the following fact :

- When using a 3.4.0-030400rc6-generic kernel, everything was fine.
- Since updating to 3.5.0-17-generic, problems began.

I don't have any encrypted partition, I'm using Xubuntu, but googling
around for a while lead me to say this is the same issue. I'm not an
expert but I read something has changed with hid-generic, some naming or
some module inclusion (...?...).

At every new kernel release, I installed them and tried them, but the symptoms are still the same :
At boot time, my mouse and my keyboard are OK in the bios setup and in grub.
After that, the kernel is booting and the system loading, but then, my keyboard and my mouse become non responsive :
- the laser of my mouse is on, but no cursor move
- the leds of my keyboard are on, but even switching on/off of caps lock is non responsive
Unplugging/plugging does not help. Even on other usb ports.

I'm using initramfs-tools version 0.103ubuntu0.2.
I tried to add things in /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
 :
hid_generic
hid-generic #I wasn't sure of the typo, I tried both
usbhid
hid
mac_hid

I have MODULES=most in initramfs.conf

Every time, I updated the initramfs this way :
update-initramfs -u -k 3.7.0-030700rc2-generic
as this is the last kernel I have so far.

Every reboot on this update kernel lead to the same end : no keyboard
not mouse response.

So, until a workaround comes to work, I'm still stuck with a
3.4.0-030400rc6-generic kernel. Not that bad, but I was wondering what
non-geek users would have done in my case.

I'd be very very glad to help experts to test any solution they would
propose.

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Title:
  keyboard doesn't work to enter password with panda and encrypted
  partitions

Status in “base-installer” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “initramfs-tools” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “base-installer” source package in Precise:
  New
Status in “initramfs-tools” source package in Precise:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  This ended up being two bugs, one is for missing modules in the
  initramfs-tools static list (which is true for all arches), and one is
  that ARM specifically get a cut-down initrd due to the base-installer
  default of setting MODULES=dep only on ARM.  The initramfs-tools SRU
  only addresses the former.

  [IMPACT]
  Users with certain USB keyboards and no USB->PS/2 BIOS emulation will no longer have keyboard control in their initrds after upgrading to an lts-quantal kernel.

  [TEST CASE]
  If you have the affected hardware, re-run update-initramfs -u both with and without the updated initramfs-tools (with a quantal kernel installed on precise), reboot with "break=bottom" on the command line, and see if you have a keyboard.

  If you don't have the affected hardware, do the above initrd
  generation, and compare results, the new one should include hid-
  logitech-dj and hid-generic.

  [Regression Potential]
  Next to none.  initrds may get a tiny bit larger, but not by any meaningful amount.

  [Original description]
  Installing quantal server on panda from the 20121013 image, a normal install with guided partitioning works fine, and keyboard works during and post-install.

  However, if I select lvm+encrypted partitions from the partitioning
  screen, after rebooting the keyboard does not work for entering the
  password to unlock the disk, which prevents booting the system.

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