Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 21:18:46 -0400 From: Chris Nehren <cnehren+freebsd-stable@pobox.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vt(4) and geli(8) Message-ID: <5351CEF6.3060007@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1404181026430.12069@roadkill.tharned.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1404181026430.12069@roadkill.tharned.org>
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On 2014/04/18, 11:36, Greg Rivers wrote: > The new vt system console looks really nice. But on hosts that > have geli encrypted devices that prompt for the passphrase at > boot, no keyboard input reaches geli. The keyboard doesn't > appear to be dead, as the caps-lock and num-lock keys toggle; > geli just doesn't receive any input. This is on 10-STABLE amd64 > built from yesterday's sources. "hw.vga.textmode=1" doesn't make > any difference. > > Has anyone else encountered this? > Yes, I have, on my FreeBSD workstation with a USB keyboard. It's running FreeBSD 10 with geli-encrypted ZFS root. This happened before I updated to vt, though. I managed to work around the problem, surprisingly enough, by mashing the keyboard when the system boots as soon as I see bold white kernel text. Then, when prompted for the passphrase (after all the USB devices finish probing / attaching), I hit enter to clear the buffer and then am able to enter the passphrase correctly. I'll be filing a PR for this, probably on Monday, should I not be able to find one that's similar. -- Chris Nehren
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