Public bug reported: Binary package hint: plymouth
In maverick plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu5. I'll skip the amount of grief plymouth has cost me in multiple places, it has been echoed by enough other people in bugs and blogs (long story short, I never upgraded to lucid because of plymouth). I eventually went to maverick and it's a tiny bit better, but as far as encryption and initrd goes, it of course grabs the console away and stops script that read input from working. My encryption script did a simple read PASSWORD feed password to cryptsetup read never works because of plymouth. I edited /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-top/plymouth and commented out #printf '\033[?25l' > /dev/tty7 #/sbin/plymouthd --mode=boot --attach-to-session --pid-file=/dev/.initramfs/plymouth.pid #/bin/plymouth show-splash I have no idea why this is there, what purpose it serves, but now that I removed them, I can read the encryption password from the command line again and boot properly. Please consider removing this if it's not absolutely necessary, and more generally when you design system enhancements, remember those who actually need boot messages and console access to work reliably and couldn't care less about splash screens and eye candy that removes access to the system when it boots. Thanks. ** Affects: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: plymouth (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: i386 maverick ** Also affects: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags added: i386 maverick -- plymouth breaks 'read' in initramfs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/665789 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs