Bug 530224

Summary: root password in plymouth
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Michał Piotrowski <mkkp4x4>
Component: plymouthAssignee: Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Michał Piotrowski 2009-10-21 22:38:53 UTC 
Description of problem:
I can't give a root password when plymouth is enabled. After hitting each key I get a communicate about wrong password. Please see attached photo.

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Fedora 12 Beta

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Comment 1 Michał Piotrowski 2009-10-21 22:39:58 UTC 
Created attachment 365614 [details]
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Comment 2 Adam Williamson 2009-10-21 23:12:44 UTC 
just to clarify, this is when something goes wrong during boot and the 'enter root password for maintenance' prompt is displayed.

reporter confirmed that with plymouth disabled, this works as expected, so it's plymouth-specific.

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Comment 3 Matthias Clasen 2009-10-22 01:37:16 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 527089 ***
Comment 4 Adam Williamson 2009-10-22 05:08:06 UTC 
why people insist on filing bugs with such spectacularly un-helpful summaries, i will never know =)

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