bug with encrypted volumes at boot

[Joshua O'Leary]

Hi
Just a suggestion does adding keymap=uk to grub solve the problem? I think
xorg can also be manually configured to force a key map in xorg.conf. Joshua
On Oct 27, 2012 4:11 AM, "Rob" <moo.moomoo.mr at googlemail.com> wrote:

> xubuntu 12.10
>
> On a fresh install using LVM + encyption there is a installation bug with
> the keyboard layout. Using an encryption passphrase of say:
>
> asdfgh
>
> will work fine and upon reboot, and the system takes you to the login
> screen. But if you use an encryption password of
>
> asdfgh"
>
> It will fail. I believe this is because the keymap is not getting loaded
> before the encrypt hook? And it is defaulting to US English (rather than
> the UK Engligh I specified on installation).
>
> I tested by reinstalling and using:
>
> asdfgh"
>
> as the passphrase, and upon reboot, it is not accepted, but entering
>
> asdfgh@
>
> Is accepted as the passphrase, this is due to the difference in layout
> from US to UK keyboards.
>
> shift + 2 = @, on a US layout
>
> shift + ' = @, on a UK layout
>
> Hope I have explained this well ...
>
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