[ale] Lubuntu 12.04 Unable to login encrypted drive with wireless keyboard

[Jim Kinney]

Doh!

Keyboard driver not loaded.
Use a wired keyboard.

Also, it's best to leave /boot out of the encryption list.
On Dec 18, 2012 8:53 AM, "Jonathan Meek" <jonathan.l.meek at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
> I have had the weirdest thing happen. Everything was along fine with my
> encrypted hard drive using Lubuntu 12.04 and then my keyboard batteries
> died. So when I started up the system and I got the prompt to enter in my
> passphrase, naturally it wouldn't enter in because of the dead batteries.
> So I turned off the system by holding the power button, put in a fresh set
> of batteries and tried again. Once again, unable to enter in the
> passphrase. Did a series of three reboots and tried each of the kernels I
> had (3.x.19,3.x.18, 3.x.17, I think) but once again, no luck.
>
> Nothing entered into the passphrase window & hitting enter did nothing.
> Suspecting a hardware failure,  I went to another computer (already booted
> Windows 7 box) and tired the wireless keyboard/mouse combo, which worked
> fine.
>
> To add another level of mystery, I can navigate into the BIOS at startup
> with no issue using the same keyboard and mouse but once I get to the
> splash screen lubuntu has for the passphrase, I am unable to enter it in.
>
> So not sure what to do with this unfortunately. I am going to try a
> standard USB keyboard to see if I have better results. Also, I am going to
> double-check that the external drive that I use for backups is disconnected
> to see if that's interfering for some lame reason.
>
> Worse case scenario is that I might have to mount the encrypted drive &
> double check I don't have anything that I need to hang onto from my last
> backup (it backed up last week at some point since I typically don't create
> new documents everyday nor do I use the machine everyday).
>
> Any takers?
>
> Thanks in advance for any insight.
>
> Jonathan
>
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