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

[Jim Kinney]

Good news indeed.
Wondering if the system was being slow walking the bus for hardware.
On Dec 19, 2012 8:23 AM, "Jonathan Meek" <jonathan.l.meek at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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