The password was not entered in at all due to the keyboard keys not working when prompted to type password. This happened on all installations requiring password confirmation in Ubuntu 11.04
--- On Tue, 27/12/11, Hans Joachim Desserud <[email protected]> wrote: From: Hans Joachim Desserud <[email protected]> Subject: [Bug 848607] Re: unable to complete installation of audacity or amarok due to inability to type password when prompted in terminal To: [email protected] Received: Tuesday, 27 December, 2011, 3:26 PM The password is not shown, in order to prevent others from looking over your shoulder and seeing your password. Just type it out as normal and press enter at the end. For more info, please see https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+faq/62 . Feel free to report any other bugs you come across in the future. ** Changed in: terminal (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/848607 Title: unable to complete installation of audacity or amarok due to inability to type password when prompted in terminal Status in “terminal” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: running command sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade when command recognised prompted to type user password. Unable to type this (no key on the keyboard registers) therefore [sudo] password for user's machine not entered and unable to complete an install. using Ubuntu 11.04 unable to locate package pkgname expectation: password entry accepted and continuation of installation process what happened: keyboard keys didn't register as entries when prompted for password To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/terminal/+bug/848607/+subscriptions -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/848607 Title: unable to complete installation of audacity or amarok due to inability to type password when prompted in terminal To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/terminal/+bug/848607/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
