Bug 591386

Summary: VT swallows keys
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Qian Cai <qcai>
Component: plymouthAssignee: Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs>
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Description Qian Cai 2010-05-12 05:39:28 UTC 
Description of problem:
When login from a VT, several previous typed keys are discarded (without any sign on the screen) before it accepts the input for username/password.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL6 public beta 1 x86_64

How reproducible:
always
Comment 1 Qian Cai 2010-05-12 06:46:53 UTC 
It behaved strangely. Sometimes, it did not accept ENTER key only. If it started in runlevel 5, and then switched back to VT, everything was working fine.
Comment 2 Qian Cai 2010-05-12 09:16:51 UTC 
This looks like a KMS bug since it went away by adding nomodeset on both ATI and Intel graphic systems.
Comment 3 Qian Cai 2010-05-12 09:36:22 UTC 
Hmm, the problem also went away by removing "rhgb quiet".
Comment 4 Ray Strode [halfline] 2010-05-12 13:58:58 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 582265 ***
Comment 5 Qian Cai 2010-05-13 01:42:23 UTC 
The problem is still persistent after upgraded to plymouth-0.8.3-1.el6.
Comment 6 Ray Strode [halfline] 2010-05-13 02:01:24 UTC 
Note after upgrading to plymouth-0.8.3-1.el6 you need to rebuild your initrd with /usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-update-initrd or by installing a new kernel.

I'm going to close this bug because it really sounds like a bug that's already been fixed.  If after rebuilding your initrd you still have a problem, please reopen.
Comment 7 Qian Cai 2010-05-13 05:55:59 UTC 
After running the command, I am getting,
"could not start boot splash: Can not access a needed shared library"
Comment 8 Ray Strode [halfline] 2010-05-13 12:22:01 UTC 
That means plymouthd couldn't find a boot splash to load.   This shouldn't happen if your initrd was generated properly.

what's the output of 

/usr/sbin/plymouth-set-default-theme ?

Can you attach your initrd?
Comment 9 Qian Cai 2010-05-14 05:05:06 UTC 
> /usr/sbin/plymouth-set-default-theme ?
text
Comment 10 Qian Cai 2010-05-14 05:08:15 UTC 
Created attachment 413944 [details]
initramfs
Comment 11 Ray Strode [halfline] 2010-05-14 14:47:44 UTC 
Turns out my fix wasn't in plymouth-0.8.1-3.el6 after all..fixed package building now...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 590774 ***
Comment 12 Qian Cai 2010-05-22 15:48:56 UTC 
Created attachment 415872 [details]
initramfs

Still have the same problem here using plymouth-0.8.3-3.el6.x86_64 + 2.6.32-28.el6 kernel.
Comment 13 Qian Cai 2010-05-22 19:40:25 UTC 
After fully updated the system, it went away.