Public bug reported: This has started happening in the last month or so. I have a clean LTS 20.04.1 that is kept up to date.
On boot, the menu is presented to select what to boot, but quite often (currently about 90% of boots), NONE OF THE KEYS WORK, so I cannot select what to boot! Randomly, sometimes the keys do work. This used to work fine all the time, so maybe it's a fairly recent change to grub? I've seen various other similar bugs with various potential solutions, and I've tried most of them with no luck. To me, there seems to be some kind of timing issue that causes the keyboard not to be detected properly some of the time, and is making boot-choice IMPOSSIBLE! This is a critical bug for me, and it's making it impossible for me to boot into Windows (in my dual boot), which is making the computer almost useless for me! As a note, I would hope that an LTS release *never* changed grub unless _ritical_ as without a working grub, I cannot use Ubuntu! Thankfully, Ubuntu is my default, so I can always boot into that, and the keyboard is always fine there, but this is a very annoying problem that's making my PC only half-useful, so please can you give this urgent attention and fix it, thanks!! my system info: $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS Release: 20.04 $ apt-cache policy grub2 grub2: Installed: (none) Candidate: 2.04-1ubuntu26.7 Version table: 2.04-1ubuntu26.7 500 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/universe amd64 Packages 2.04-1ubuntu26.2 500 500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/universe amd64 Packages 2.04-1ubuntu26 500 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages What I expected: to be able to choose an OS to boot What happened: the keys do not work, so I cannot choose anything and the default is always selected instead). ** Affects: grub2 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1910571 Title: menu-selection keys do not work (intermittently, but frequently making boot choice impossible!) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1910571/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs