Bad news-this is now back, worse than ever, with Plymouth 0.8.1-1ubuntu3, and kernel 2.8.32-18-generic. Came back with the last couple day's updates. Some boot attempts OK, others miss so many keypresses it's better to power-cycle and start over.
> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:45:00 +0000 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [Bug 537793] Re: missed passphrase keypress bug is back on > MSI Wind U100 > > > In the past few days of use, I've still had an occasional missed keypress, > down to maybe one keypress every two or three entries of the (long) > passphrase. Plymouth and cryptsetup are being run from the initramfs, since > this is full disk encryption. > > I have tested the keyboard itself after booting by firing up Leafpad > and looking for missed presses, finding none. Still, I cannot rule out a > keyboard driver bug that early in the boot process, so plymouth may or > many not even be at fault for those. > > Still, it's been a hell of a lot easier to boot the MSI since the last > round of plymouth fixes-thanks! > > > > > Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:49:50 +0000 > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: RE: [Bug 537793] Re: missed passphrase keypress bug is back on MSI > > Wind U100 > > > > On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 00:50 +0000, Luke wrote: > > > > > A quick test boot (I'm in a park on batteries) showed no sign of the > > > keypress bug with the new plymouth, smoothly took every character. I > > > will let you know if the problem resurfaces, but the odds that this > > > boot would have been this clean with the last version would have been > > > less than 1 in 10. > > > > > This would make sense to me. > > > > Since you're using encrypted filesystems, you must have cryptsetup > > installed, so Plymouth is starting from the initramfs. Plymouth will > > set its TTY up to be in "raw mode", and make it the active VT on the > > console. > > > > Upstart starts later, to bring up the full system; and some code existed > > in there (the last thing done only because sysvinit did) to reset the > > console with "sane" settings. This put the console back into "cooked > > mode", ie. Plymouth's active VT. > > > > Since Plymouth is now receiving cooked key codes not raw key codes, it's > > not what it expects; and thus we have the bug where keypresses are > > missed or mis-interpreted. > > > > > > Later on, this same problem would cause X to crash on the Enter key. So > > it should be fixed as a result of that fix, we not only fixed bits in > > Plymouth but dropped that code from Upstart too. I'll mark it fixed > > now, but please do reopen if you have the issue again, and we'll walk > > through the code and see what else is going screwy. > > > > status fixreleased > > > > Scott > > -- > > Scott James Remnant > > [email protected] > > > > > > ** Changed in: plymouth (Ubuntu) > > Status: Incomplete => Fix Released > > > > -- > > missed passphrase keypress bug is back on MSI Wind U100 > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/537793 > > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > > of the bug. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. Get more from your > inbox. > http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID27925::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:032010_2 > > -- > missed passphrase keypress bug is back on MSI Wind U100 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/537793 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID27925::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:032010_3 -- missed passphrase keypress bug is back on MSI Wind U100 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/537793 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
