[Bug 1385027] Re: You broke the encryption password screen at boot. Again.

[Marius Gedminas]

** Also affects: plymouth (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  You broke the encryption password screen at boot. Again.

Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “ubuntu-release-upgrader” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  This happens every time I upgrade between major versions of Ubuntu
  regardless of which computer I do it on.

  This has been happening on every computer I install Ubuntu on going
  all the way back to Warty.

  Every time there's a new distro upgrade I have to report this bug,
  wait around while you guys hem and haw, close the bug a few times,
  accusing me of being an idiot user, then around the fifth or sixth
  time I open a new bug reporting the problem you eventually get tired
  of closing bugs and investigate the problem. Then you go "Oh! Look,
  there really is a problem." Then a few days later an update shows up
  on my computer that fixes the problem.

  When I upgrade from 10.4 to 10.10 and I have full-disk encryption on
  the system drive, the next time I start up the cursor is not in the
  password box where I'm supposed to type the password so I can't type
  the password I'm being prompted for to boot.

  I have to go into recovery to skip the graphical boot screen, select
  "continue booting" from the menu, wait for I guess about five minutes
  to make sure Ubuntu is done doing things and is ready for my password,
  then blindly type my encryption password because the password prompt
  in this boot mode is there, but not visible.

  Can we please just skip the closing the bug six or seven times this
  time and just fix the problem right away?

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:14.10.9
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-23.31-generic 3.16.4
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-23-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Thu Oct 23 20:52:52 2014
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-10-05 (18 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  Symptom: dist-upgrade
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-10-21 (3 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

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