Bug 1690023

Summary:	double password asterisks and boot log messages in the "details" theme
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Laszlo Ersek <lersek>
Component:	plymouth	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Version:	7.6	CC:	jkoten, tpelka
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Description Laszlo Ersek 2019-03-18 15:25:12 UTC

*** Description of problem:

- The "details" theme of Plymouth shows duplicated asterisks when the user is entering the LUKS password (that is, two "*" characters per password character). 

- In addition, boot log messages are shown twice.

- Furthermore, both in the "details" theme and in the default "charge" theme, a partially entered password cannot be completely deleted with Ctrl+U: a number of placeholder characters remain. (It is not deterministic how many remain -- the longer the password is when Ctrl+U is pressed, the higher the chance for some placeholder characters to remain.)

*** Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

plymouth-0.8.9-0.31.20140113.el7.x86_64 (= both RHEL-7.5 and RHEL-7.6)

*** Additional info:

This issue may have been fixed in upstream Plymouth and Fedora's Plymouth:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/369454/boot-time-service-startup-messages-are-repeated-a-second-time
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104353
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1554148

Comment 2 Ray Strode [halfline] 2019-03-26 19:19:02 UTC

So this actually ended up needing this fix:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/plymouth/plymouth/commit/059390ac569798cbf40a958ea714b15f313b46a3

(the other one was already in place and dealt with graphical display, not text display)

Comment 5 Laszlo Ersek 2019-05-12 15:25:08 UTC

"plymouth-0.8.9-0.32.20140113.el7" works fine for me, thank you.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2019-08-06 12:38:30 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:2044