v14.10, Want to enable text prompt for luks

[Guest]

Hello,
I have installed v14.10, and during the installation, I encrypted the entire drive. I ran into a bug where my keyboard is unresponsive when the plymouth graphical display for the luks password is displayed. If i hold down the power button, and shut off, then turn the computer back on, I am presented with a text based luks password prompt where my keyboard does work, and i can continue to boot.

How can I enable the text based luks password prompt by default?

Thank you!

[SteveRiley]

I recently discovered the package plymouth-disabler, which simply adds a bunch of .override files into Upstart to prevent Plymouth from running. Solving your problem could be as easy as installing that package and rebooting.

[Guest]

Thank you! unfortunately, that did not resolve my issue =(

[SteveRiley]

Did it change anything at all?

[NickStone]

What is the content of /etc/defaultgrub ? Do you have the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" ?

If you do comment out that line like I have done below.

# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
# For full documentation of the options in this file, see:
#   info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
#GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

# Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs
# This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains
# the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...)
#GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef"

# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console

# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
#GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480

# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true

# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
#GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"

# Uncomment to get a beep at grub start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"

Edit: Oops forgot to add that if you do amend the grub to run the command

sudo update-grub

[xennex81]

If that'd work, you can also try to test it first with the editing feature of grub, where you can simply remove those kernel options from the linux kernel command line. Not going to do it for you though ;-), don't want to lose my wifi here ;P.