P/S2 Keyboard Support Now Modular. Breaks Some Keyboard Controllers

ferda · 2014-02-21 16:13:28

Moderator comment. Changed the thread title from "[SOLVED] Cannot boot encrypted root filesystem after kernel upgrade" after making this a sticky topic

After the recent kernel update to 3.13, I can no longer boot my system.
When prompting for the luks password, my computer doesn’t react to any keyboard input (not even C-A-Del) and I have to power it down manually.

This is my mkinitcpio.conf:

MODULES="ahci asus_laptop libahci ehci-hcd uhci-hcd ext4 btrfs crc32c"
BINARIES=""
FILES=""
HOOKS="base udev autodetect modconf block encrypt lvm2 btrfs"
COMPRESSION="xz"

and from my syslinux.cfg:

LABEL arch
	LINUX /vmlinuz-linux
	APPEND cryptdevice=/dev/sda3:root:allow-discards root=/dev/mapper/vgroup-root rootflags=subvol=@,compress=lzo,ssd rootfstype=btrfs ro
	INITRD /initramfs-linux.img

The LTS kernel works fine.

Last edited by ewaller (2014-02-21 17:01:41)

Scimmia · 2014-02-21 16:15:08

Hey, I think you're the first!

Read the news on the front page.

karol · 2014-02-21 16:16:13

pacman prints the info too.

ferda · 2014-02-21 16:19:13

Scimmia wrote:

Hey, I think you're the first!
Read the news on the front page.

Could have thought of that … thanks.

ewaller · 2014-02-21 16:52:40

Moderator Comment: I think this topic needs to be made sticky for a while.

karol · 2014-02-21 16:55:33

ewaller wrote:

Moderator Comment: I think this topic needs to be made sticky for a while.

Sure, but the thread's title is pretty specific to OP's problem and other users might still overlook it.

ewaller · 2014-02-21 16:57:52

karol wrote:

ewaller wrote:
Moderator Comment: I think this topic needs to be made sticky for a while.
Sure, but the thread's title is pretty specific to OP's problem and other users might still overlook it.

Good Point. I think I'll (slightly) abuse my privileges and change the title.

Related thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=177453

Last edited by ewaller (2014-02-22 01:00:59)

vvd · 2014-02-23 23:24:33

The default line in mkinitcpio.conf (I think that this is the default line)

HOOKS="base udev autodetect modconf block keyboard fsck"

does not work when using cryptsetup such that systemd prompts the user for a password, and must then be changed to

HOOKS="base udev autodetect modconf keyboard block fsck"

At least this is true when using

MODULES="atkbd ..."

Dregel · 2014-08-04 09:51:31

Any chance that this might mess with USB keyboards as well, or is it strictly a P/S2 concern?

ewaller · 2014-08-04 15:20:53

Dregel wrote:

Any chance that this might mess with USB keyboards as well, or is it strictly a P/S2 concern?

Strictly a P/S2 problem.
Feel free to start a new thread if you are having a similar problem with a USB keyboard. If you are only having trouble in X, be sure to read up on some of the issues some members have been encountering with rootless Xorg.

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#1 2014-02-21 16:13:28

P/S2 Keyboard Support Now Modular. Breaks Some Keyboard Controllers

#2 2014-02-21 16:15:08

Re: P/S2 Keyboard Support Now Modular. Breaks Some Keyboard Controllers

#3 2014-02-21 16:16:13

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#4 2014-02-21 16:19:13

Re: P/S2 Keyboard Support Now Modular. Breaks Some Keyboard Controllers

#5 2014-02-21 16:52:40

Re: P/S2 Keyboard Support Now Modular. Breaks Some Keyboard Controllers

#6 2014-02-21 16:55:33

Re: P/S2 Keyboard Support Now Modular. Breaks Some Keyboard Controllers

#7 2014-02-21 16:57:52

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#8 2014-02-23 23:24:33

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#9 2014-08-04 09:51:31

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#10 2014-08-04 15:20:53

Re: P/S2 Keyboard Support Now Modular. Breaks Some Keyboard Controllers

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