https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211884
Bug ID: 211884 Summary: IPKVM cannot reliably enter text under 11.0-RC2 Product: Base System Version: 11.0-RC1 Hardware: amd64 OS: Any Status: New Severity: Affects Some People Priority: --- Component: kern Assignee: freebsd-b...@freebsd.org Reporter: k...@denninger.net CC: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org CC: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org Updated from 11.0-ALPHA to 11.0-RC2 this afternoon on a test machine and ran into a really odd problem. The system in question has an encrypted root ZFS pool, which results in a prompt for the GELI password during the boot and before the root filesystem mounts. This has been trouble-free for a long time. This afternoon, however, it suddenly turned into a huge problem. After the kernel loads and the prompt comes up the keyboard was not recognized over the IPMI interface; only one of every handful of keystrokes went through. This meant if you pounded the enter key a few times you'd eventually get one through, but the keys you typed in the meantime (containing the GELI password!) were of course lost - or some of them were anyway. A locally-attached PS/2 keyboard (at the physical machine) works, but a USB-attached keyboard *also* had intermittent problems, often NOT registering the CAPS and NUMLOCK keys reliably. The IPMI keyboard is recognized properly at the BIOS level (before the loader gets control) and works fine there. This is likely to be extremely serious for anyone who attempts to update a system with encrypted disks over a remote link using a built-in IPKVM; the machine in question has a SuperMicro board in it, but given that I *also* had trouble with a USB plugged keyboard on the same machine (but not a PS/2 keyboard!) it appears that this is something in the kernel level and *not* strictly an IPKVM interaction issue. Reverting to the previous ALPHA kernel resolved the problem immediately. In addition if I change the mouse mode on the web interface (which forces a detach/reattach for the keyboard, which I can see on the KVM console) it will *sometimes* permit me to type the password. IMHO this needs to be investigated as if RELEASE goes out with this problem present it is likely to screw a large number of people who are doing the upgrade remotely, possibly forcing a trip to the site with a physical keyboard to get beyond the prompt. I do not know if this was a problem on RC1 as I didn't run it but it was NOT an issue in the ALPHA series of releases. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-amd64 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-amd64-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"