[Bug 1386005] Re: Password not accepted graphical boot for encrypted root system

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

Ron, do you mind if we "commandeer" your bug to handle the latest
reported cases? We could open a new one, more specific to the use of
uvesafb in your configuration, and making it clear enough in the title
that it's unmistakably a different problem than anything else?

Josh, I have no history dealing with you or your bug reports. I'm
unaware of any of the previous details, but I also happen to be the
person to look at these bug reports now. Let's proceed simply and
logically. I will de-duplicate your bugs so I can go through the
attachments more easily and threat your bug with the attention it
deserves -- however, I like I said above I do not have the previous
details. It would be helpful if you could point me to the right previous
bugs so I can see what the issue has been in the past and how it was
resolved -- please do so in your own bug report, bug 1385027. This could
also be a very different problem and thus still require that we get
additional data from you; and other bugs may come up with a higher
priority that I will need to address first.

Since this bug report has a few instances of being noted in daily iso
testing, I'm going to keep it at priority Critical. This could be a
High, but the workaround isn't necessarily obvious if the computer you'd
use to get to see the workaround appears to not be usable.

Documentation on the workaround still needs to happen in the bug report
here; in the description.

This stays at confirmed for now and I will try to reproduce with a daily
ISO on a system which would more likely exhibit the issue and push to
Triage as necessary, or ask for more information here.

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Title:
  Password not accepted graphical boot for encrypted root system

Status in plymouth package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  After upgrading to 14.10 from 14.04, I am unable to enter my password for decypting the root filesystem.  The password is echoed in plaintext on the  graphic boot screen and does not show up in the password entry box  on the graphic.   In order to boot the system, I have to boot in recovery mode and enter the password during the text mode boot.  This problem was also described by another user in problem# 1385027.   I did not have a probem in 14.04.   I am using nvidia drivers.   I am set to resolution 1920x1200.  I am running module uvesafb with changes to /etc/default/grub for the module and resolution.  I assume this is a plymouth package bug but am not positive.
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  ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-21 (189 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
  MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude E6500
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: plymouth 0.9.0-0ubuntu7
  PackageArchitecture: amd64
  PccardctlIdent:
   Socket 0:
     no product info available
  PccardctlStatus:
   Socket 0:
     no card
  ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.13.0-37-generic root=/dev/mapper/hogwarts_vg-root ro recovery nomodeset
  ProcFB: 0 VESA VGA
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.13.0-37-generic root=/dev/mapper/hogwarts_vg-root ro recovery nomodeset
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-37.64-generic 3.13.11.7
  Tags:  utopic
  TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-37-generic x86_64
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-10-23 (4 days ago)
  UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
  _MarkForUpload: True
  dmi.bios.date: 12/06/2011
  dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: A27
  dmi.board.name: 0PP476
  dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.chassis.type: 8
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA27:bd12/06/2011:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeE6500:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0PP476:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
  dmi.product.name: Latitude E6500
  dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

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