[Bug 777302] Re: No password prompt on boot for crypted root disk

[Stephen Warren]

Me too.

Is this related to using a video/X driver that doesn't support KMS? I
notice that Jerico's lspci.txt in comment #5 shows an ATI graphics card,
and the fglrx binary driver is listed in ProcModules.txt in comment #8.

(As background, in Maverick, I uninstalled the Ubuntu NVIDIA driver
packages, and had installed a newer NVIDIA driver directly from one of
NVIDIA's .run driver distributions. I did the upgrade in this state.
After the upgrade, installing Ubuntu's NVIDIA driver package didn't
solve the issue)

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Title:
  No password prompt on boot for crypted root disk

Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: plymouth

  After upgrading from 10.04 Lucid to 11.04 Natty I'm no longer getting
  a password prompt on boot to unlock my cryptroot. Directly after
  selecting the boot device from the grub menu I see an empty screen. I
  can enter the password "blindly" and press enter afterwards which will
  correctly boot into the system. But I don't get any visual feedback -
  not even when I type a wrong password.

  plymouth: 0.8.2-2ubuntu22
  grub: 1.99~rc1-13ubuntu3

  I hope that someone can help me debug this. I'm happy to investigate further but I need some guidance. I don't know where to look next...
  --- 
  Architecture: amd64
  DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
  Lsusb:
   Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
   Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0461:4db6 Primax Electronics, Ltd 
   Bus 001 Device 003: ID 138a:0007 DigitalPersona, Inc 
   Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
   Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
  MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP ProBook 4720s
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu22
  PackageArchitecture: amd64
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcFB: 0 VESA VGA
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=/dev/mapper/cryptroot ro splash vt.handoff=7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Tags:  natty
  TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-04 (0 days ago)
  UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare
  dmi.bios.date: 01/12/2010
  dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  dmi.bios.version: 68AZZ Ver. F.01
  dmi.board.name: 1411
  dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  dmi.board.version: KBC Version 57.17
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvr68AZZVer.F.01:bd01/12/2010:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPProBook4720s:pvr:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn1411:rvrKBCVersion57.17:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvr:
  dmi.product.name: HP ProBook 4720s
  dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard