[Bug 1727816] Re: cannot enter encryption password in GUI

[stuartbh]

TJ,

I hope you are joking in your suggestion as it being bug #1386005 as
that is a rather egregious suggestion to make! Indeed, you are
suggesting that a bug that is almost 3 years old has not been fixed and
that Ubuntu doesn't give a rat's toukhes about fixing it or worse stands
in the absence of the the expertise to do so. That would a terrible
thing to suggest for such a world renowned operating system and
distribution as Ubuntu and is a rather insulting thing to say about
them.

I would suggest that someone look at both bugs and actually try to fix
them instead of wasting all this time trying to reclassify the bug as
security or not or really this bug or that bug, why not focus all that
energy on testing and fixing the bug, eh?

Stuart

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Title:
  cannot enter encryption password in GUI

Status in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in plymouth package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I am running Ubuntu 17.10 Desktop on a Dell XPS 2720, under which VirtualBox 5.2.0 is running.
  Within VirtualBox I installed a 2nd level 17.10 Desktop and checked off encryption during installation (forcing LVM to be used). The install went flawlessly, then I tried to reboot and it asked for the password (in GUI mode) to access the encrypted disk, but when I typed it no asterisks came up and it never accepted my typing.

  However, when I booted in recovery mode (textually) it asked for the
  password in text, I entered it, Ubuntu accepted it, then I hit resume
  boot up and it booted up into the GUI. This bug seems NOT to be
  present in a bare metal environment only when running under VirtualBox
  (I have not tested other virtualization technologies, just VirtualBox
  5.2.0)

  
  Thanks,

  Stuart

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