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

[Jonathan Meek]

It turns out that I wasn't waiting long enough for the USB keyboard drivers
to load. After about a minute or two the drivers will load and I can log
into the box. Thank goodness there's a recovery mode that prints out what's
going on in your system. Another awesome thing about linux: there's always
a verbose mode somewhere.

So I was able to get into my system this morning and got the backup done as
well as get my gpg key uploaded to the keyserver so Jeremy can finish the
keysigning. Sorry to everyone who participated in the keysigning party last
Thursday and has been waiting for so long, I am quite certain that was my
fault. Next time, we all go out for dinner after an ALE meeting, I owe
Jeremy a beer. Old habit I started when I was working IT support when I
screwed something up or delayed something because I didn't have my stuff in
order and inflicted pain/suffering on a fellow co-worker.

Planning to get a wired keyboard and mouse this weekend. Thanks to everyone
who provided answers and support. Figured it was best to let you all know
the issue has been resolved

Jonathan


On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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