Re: No capslock indication on LVM boot password entry

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On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Martin Ueding <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I use a LUKS-LVM setup to encrypt my whole drive. Something within
> `/boot` then asks me to enter the password and boots after that.
>
> On some occasions, especially with the laptop keyboard, I accidentally
> hit the capslock key. After that all password attempts are wrong, of
> course. The problem is that the capslock indicator light on my keyboard
> does not light up. Also the screen content has no indicator for that.
>
> I would really like for either feedback to work. It has cost me a couple
> of hard resets after `systemd` got into a state where it failed to mount
> `/` since I exhausted the number of trials for the password entry.

I think it's plymouth that presents the UI for entering in the
passphrase. Maybe search for an RFE for this, and file one if it
doesn't already exist.


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