I have seen the same behavior you describe on my ubuntu 10.04, whenever I forgot to activate Num Lock key. It is quite annoying, but you can use Home key (if I remember it correctly) to return back to plymouth boot screen.
What I think is a lot worse is that there seem to be no way I know of (without recompiling your own kernel; numlockx or setleds and similar solutions are useless if you need Num Lock enabled during cryptsetup) to force Linux to respect BIOS setting saying Num Lock should be enabled on boot. For details see: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0702.1/2363.html http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0707.1/1834.html etc. (search the web for more:) I would even try to compile my own kernel, but it would probably mean recompiling it for each security patch again, which I consider way too much effort compared to just pushing one more key during each bootup. Still I think some widely used distro like Ubuntu or Linux Mint could perhaps provide modified kernel solving this endless Num Lock problem, because if Windows can why not Linux? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/692170 Title: numlock weirdness when typing passphrase To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cryptsetup/+bug/692170/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
