Bug 784277 - USB keyboard deactivated during LUKS passphrase prompt
Summary: USB keyboard deactivated during LUKS passphrase prompt
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 16
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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high
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Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-01-24 12:51 UTC by Julian
Modified: 2012-09-18 15:20 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-09-18 15:20:29 UTC
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Description Julian 2012-01-24 12:51:35 UTC
Description of problem:
When trying to boot the kernel-3.2.1-3.fc16.x86_64 kernel any usb keyboard is deactivated during prompt for luks passphrase so no passphrase can be given. Analog keyboards still work and in the previous versions (all up to kernel-3.1.9-1.fc16.x86_64) my usb keyboards were available during boot.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-3.2.1-3.fc16.x86_64

How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install kernel-3.2.1-3.fc16.x86_64 on a machine with luks partitions
2. reboot
3. try to enter passphrase via a usb connected keyboard
  
Actual results:
USB keyboard is not available, not even LEDs like Numlock work.

Expected results:
USB keyboard should function normally.

Additional info:
Funny thing is that the keyboard was available in grub2 menu.

Comment 1 Julian 2012-01-28 09:07:20 UTC
The problem still exists in kernel 3.2.2-1.fc16.x86_64.

Comment 2 iborco 2012-03-10 06:28:26 UTC
The problem is still not fixed in 3.2.9-1.fc16. At present I'm forced to stick with 3.1.9-1.fc16, as that is the last one that allowed me to enter the luks passphrase.

Is anybody working on this? I see the bug still listed as NEW, even though it is a high severity bug - you can't boot the system because of it.

Is there a known solution to it?

Thanx.

Comment 3 iborco 2012-03-14 13:23:20 UTC
The problem still exists in kernel 3.2.9-2.fc16.x86_64.

Comment 4 iborco 2012-03-30 06:03:30 UTC
3.3.0-4.fc16 still no go.

Comment 5 Reartes Guillermo 2012-04-20 13:06:20 UTC
does ctrl + alt + del works?

It might not be the same issue, but with F16 i had to remove 'rhgb' and 'quiet' from the command line, otherwise luks never accepted the password sometimes... 
No problems since i removed those. I never found any debug info, hitting ESC cleared the screen... So i did not report anything because i give up in absence of any possible debug info...

It is likely that my issue is different.

Comment 6 iborco 2012-04-23 12:46:09 UTC
* kernel 3.3.2-1.fc16: no go

* tried with and without "quiet rhgb" - keyboard never worked (ctrl-alt-del also doesn't work and i have to user the power button)

* for completeness, here is my current /etc/default/grub:

GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(sed 's, release .*$,,g' /etc/system-release)"
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true
# GRUB_TERMINAL="serial console"
# GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND="serial --unit=0 --speed=9600"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="quiet rhgb"
# GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER="true"

Comment 7 Julian 2012-05-07 11:18:06 UTC
I moved to F17 last week and the problem does not occur for me there using kernel 3.3.4-4.fc17.x86_64.


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