Bug 753647

Summary:	No password entry visible during boot with disk encryption
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	marco
Component:	plymouth	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	16	CC:	dennis, fedora, rstrode
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Description marco 2011-11-13 23:21:51 UTC

Description of problem:

When booting fedora 16 with disk encryption enabled during the DVD installer the password entry sometimes doesn't show up. In the normal case a graphical screen appears with the entry box just after switching from the text mode screen. The graphical screen only shows the password entry box, which is normal I think. In the wrong case though, the screen stays in text mode (seems to hang) but when I type the password blindly and wait some time, the rotating icon down-right of the screen appears and then the normal login screen.
It might be a problem with starting the graphical screen during boot, the fedora icon that fills up in normal cases doesn't show up at all in the wrong case. Might be a hardware thingy of the laptop I use: Acer aspire 5935 (It seems to have two video cards).
This is quite confusing at first. When playing with the keyboard it once showed the password entry in textmode. That gave me the hint that typing the password blindly would work as well. 

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

fedora 16

How reproducible:

50%

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Additional info:
Hardware: laptop Acer aspire 5935

Comment 1 marco 2012-03-23 00:55:07 UTC

The problem occurs almost every time when the system reboots. 
The system needs the password to read the encrypted disks in order to boot.
In most cases no password entry is shown.

If you need more info please contact me.

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