Public bug reported:
This has started happening in the last month or so. I have a clean LTS
20.04.1 that is kept up to date.
On boot, the menu is presented to select what to boot, but quite often
(currently about 90% of boots), NONE OF THE KEYS WORK, so I cannot
select what to boot!
Randomly, sometimes the keys do work.
This used to work fine all the time, so maybe it's a fairly recent
change to grub?
I've seen various other similar bugs with various potential solutions,
and I've tried most of them with no luck.
To me, there seems to be some kind of timing issue that causes the
keyboard not to be detected properly some of the time, and is making
boot-choice IMPOSSIBLE!
This is a critical bug for me, and it's making it impossible for me to
boot into Windows (in my dual boot), which is making the computer almost
useless for me!
As a note, I would hope that an LTS release *never* changed grub unless
_ritical_ as without a working grub, I cannot use Ubuntu! Thankfully,
Ubuntu is my default, so I can always boot into that, and the keyboard
is always fine there, but this is a very annoying problem that's making
my PC only half-useful, so please can you give this urgent attention and
fix it, thanks!!
my system info:
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
Release: 20.04
$ apt-cache policy grub2
grub2:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 2.04-1ubuntu26.7
Version table:
2.04-1ubuntu26.7 500
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/universe amd64
Packages
2.04-1ubuntu26.2 500
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/universe amd64
Packages
2.04-1ubuntu26 500
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages
What I expected: to be able to choose an OS to boot
What happened: the keys do not work, so I cannot choose anything and the
default is always selected instead).
** Affects: grub2 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
menu-selection keys do not work (intermittently, but frequently making
boot choice impossible!)
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