[Bug 1187318] Re: Splash skips text when asking for LUKS password

[Sami Jaktholm]

The version in raring-proposed shows a visible label when prompting for
LUKS password.

** Tags removed: verification-needed
** Tags added: verification-done

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Title:
  Splash skips text when asking for LUKS password

Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “plymouth” source package in Raring:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  Text labels are not displayed at all by plymouth on i386 when using the script plugin (used by all of the default *buntu graphical themes).  As a result, prompting for passphrases for full-disk encryption confusingly gives no text explanation, and there is no information about fsck progress - or instructions about what to do in the case of an fsck failure.

  [Test case]
  1. On an i386 system, install plymouth-theme-ubuntu-logo if not already installed
  2. stop any X sessions
  3. from a console, run: plymouthd --tty=/dev/tty7 --kernel-command-line='splash' && plymouth show-splash && plymouth ask-for-password --prompt='Do you see this text?' && plymouth quit
  4. verify that a plymouth splash screen is shown with a blank text field, but no prompt.
  5. install the plymouth package from raring-proposed.
  6. rerun the test from step 3.
  7. verify that a plymouth splash screen is shown with a blank text field, but the prompt is now shown.

  [Regression potential]
  The fix for this is to add a header include to fix a missing prototype, so the risk of regression is minimal; if there are any side effects from this change, they will be completely unpredictable.

  
  When you use full-disk encryption with LVM as per the alternate installer or the netboot installer, during bootup you are presented with a text box to enter the HDD encryption password.

  On Precise this box was presented with a message to enter the password
  for the specified disk by uuid. In raring, this is no longer the case.
  There's just the box.

  If this is hardware-specific, this was tested on a Dell e6410 laptop.

  See the attachment.
  ---
  ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: i386
  DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude E6410
  MarkForUpload: True
  Package: plymouth 0.8.8-0ubuntu6.1
  PackageArchitecture: i386
  ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.8.0-19-generic root=/dev/mapper/system-root ro splash quiet plymouth.debug
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_IE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.8.0-19-generic root=/dev/mapper/system-root ro splash quiet plymouth.debug
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.30-generic 3.8.8
  Tags:  raring
  TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic i686
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-05-14 (33 days ago)
  UserGroups: adm cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo vboxusers
  dmi.bios.date: 08/23/2011
  dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: A10
  dmi.board.name: 0667CC
  dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.board.version: A01
  dmi.chassis.type: 9
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA10:bd08/23/2011:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeE6410:pvr0001:rvnDellInc.:rn0667CC:rvrA01:cvnDellInc.:ct9:cvr:
  dmi.product.name: Latitude E6410
  dmi.product.version: 0001
  dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

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