Bug 1211309 - No keyboard at boot/LUKS password prompt after upgrade to kernel 3.19.3-100
Summary: No keyboard at boot/LUKS password prompt after upgrade to kernel 3.19.3-100
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 20
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-04-13 14:58 UTC by Larry O'Leary
Modified: 2015-10-30 15:22 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-06-30 00:20:47 UTC
Type: Bug
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Bugzilla 867693 0 unspecified CLOSED USB keyboard deactivated during LUKS passphrase prompt 2021-02-22 00:41:40 UTC

Internal Links: 867693 1229016

Description Larry O'Leary 2015-04-13 14:58:57 UTC
Description of problem:
Installed updates this morning and upon reboot I was unable to enter my LUKS password due to no keyboard. I am able to use the keyboard to select the previous kernel and boot just fine but if I use the new kernel, I am stuck at the password prompt.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.19.3-100

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Reboot and allow kernel 3.19.3-100 to be used

Actual results:
Unable to type password at password prompt to unlock LUKS encrypted disk.

Expected results:
Able to enter password as normal.

Additional info:
I am using a laptop with a Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse. The keyboard works just fine with the previous Kernel versions and before the Kernel is actually booted. In other words, I can use the wireless keyboard to select the Kernel and to enter boot options. Once Kernel 3.19.3-100 starts to boot, input is no longer available from the wireless device.

If I open the laptop, it appears that its physical keyboard does work.

Looks like this may have been a problem in the past as well based on BZ-867693.

Comment 1 Jacobo Aragunde 2015-04-13 15:45:26 UTC
(In reply to Larry O'Leary from comment #0)
> 
> Looks like this may have been a problem in the past as well based on
> BZ-867693.


Indeed, I was affected but that bug and I can still reproduce it in F20 with kernel 3.19.3-100 with a Lenovo Thinkpad USB Keyboard (SK-8855). Other external keyboards did not have this problem, but I have not tried recently.

Comment 2 Fedora Kernel Team 2015-04-28 18:31:04 UTC
*********** MASS BUG UPDATE **************

We apologize for the inconvenience.  There is a large number of bugs to go through and several of them have gone stale.  Due to this, we are doing a mass bug update across all of the Fedora 20 kernel bugs.

Fedora 20 has now been rebased to 3.19.5-100.fc20.  Please test this kernel update (or newer) and let us know if you issue has been resolved or if it is still present with the newer kernel.

If you have moved on to Fedora 21, and are still experiencing this issue, please change the version to Fedora 21.

If you experience different issues, please open a new bug report for those.

Comment 3 Larry O'Leary 2015-04-28 23:30:46 UTC
Issue is still present with the newer kernel (3.19.5-100). I have also tested using a Logitech wired USB keyboard and mouse connected to a docking station of a Lenovo ThinkPad T540p.

Comment 4 Jacobo Aragunde 2015-04-29 08:24:59 UTC
Also FTR, this seems to affect only to some keyboards. Some examples:

* Genius wired USB keyboard KB-M220 -> worked
* ThinkPad wired USB keyboard SK-8855 -> did not work

Comment 5 Fedora End Of Life 2015-05-29 13:47:36 UTC
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Comment 6 Fedora End Of Life 2015-06-30 00:20:47 UTC
Fedora 20 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2015-06-23. Fedora 20 is
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Comment 7 ilmostro7 2015-10-30 15:20:28 UTC
This issue occurs on a Fedora22 with LUKS and a USB-powered "wireless" keyboard on a Desktop.  As per a Bug report on Launchpad, this might be due to a module missing during Kernel/initramfs compilation; namely, "ohci_pci" module.  I can track some form of this bug back to earlier versions of Fedora with other Bug reports here.  Every time it gets closed as "End of Life" and/or "WONTFIX".  What, if anything, is being done about this to make it a more permanent solution during installation.  

This latest occurrence on my Desktop is during/after a fresh installation of the Fedora-Live-Design_suite-x86_64-22-3.iso from getfedora.org.


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