I'm unsure if this is exactly the same issue, but, yes I still have the
issue that my password is not accepted if I just enter it on the
password prompt and press Enter. What I figured out so far is that the
problem seems to arise from the fact that my password starts with a
capital letter. During Ubuntu installation the installer happily did
accept the password, though and didn't complain that a password must not
start with a capital letter or anything.

Now, when the system boots, I see the graphical plymouth password
prompt. As soon as I press the shift key to enter the first capital
letter of my password, plymouth disappears :-( And, weirdly, even though
I pressed only the shift key, 4 letters already appear behind the text
password prompt that I didn't type!? Because they are asterisks I don't
know what letters they are. If I backspace them and enter my password,
the system boots. If I just enter my password without backspacing, then
the password is not accepted. Probably because it's prefixed by those 4
mystery letters that have been typed automatically.

Another workaround is to first type a lower case letter while the
graphical screen is still on. Then backspace that and enter the real
password. This will keep the graphical bootscreen.

Only problem: This is quite difficult to explain to some family members
who get very easily confused by this... :-/

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