Since kernel 2.6.32-21-generic came out, I have seen exactly one missed
keypress in days of use on the MSI Wind U100 with Intel Atom. Possibly a more
efficient keyboard driver helped that machine.
Does the newest kernel update help on any of the other machines
with this problem? If thgis isn't fixed, a LOT of people are going to
want to disable Plymouth in the initramfs and run Cryptsetup from
console. I use a custom initramfs configured that way in single-user
mode and it works fine. You can put splash back on the grub command
line and Plymouth will launch on the root fs init.
This fix is ugly, so I only use it in single-user mode. Since a lot of
machines (like my AMD) never get the missed keypress bug, some easy way
that non-hackers could choose to use or not use Plymouth in the
initramfs with Cryptsetup would be nice. A whiptail dialog box running
during the initial configuration of either cryptsetup or plymouth would
work fine for this-and it would need to be easy to reconfigure. I do
this stuff by hand, manually disabling execution on Plymouth and making
an initramfs labelled "single" for that purpose, but how many thousands
of laptop users need encryption and don't know how to manually work in
the initramfs?
> Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:44:36 +0000
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Bug 537793] Re: missed passphrase keypress for encrypted HD
>
> IMHO bumping it to High is adequate as the "This bug affects n people"
> counter keeps rising and soon it could even meet "Has a severe impact on
> a moderate portion of Ubuntu users". And they say "High: A bug which
> fulfills _one_ of the following criteria".
>
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> missed passphrase keypress for encrypted HD
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/537793
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