Ah; sure enough, console-cyrillic incorrectly assumes that it's ok to adjust the console state during startup... which it's not. In particular, calling 'kbd_mode' when the terminal is in raw mode is a no- no.
console-cyrillic needs to be heavily refactored to use the rules described in /lib/udev/console-setup-tty. It should maybe be reduced to nothing more than a config package that sets certain defaults for console-setup. ** Package changed: plymouth (Ubuntu) => console-cyrillic (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: console-cyrillic (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Critical ** Changed in: console-cyrillic (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Triaged ** Changed in: plymouth Status: New => Invalid ** Also affects: console-cyrillic (Ubuntu Oneiric) Importance: Critical Status: Triaged -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/597673 Title: plymouth picking up the keyboard To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/plymouth/+bug/597673/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs