kern/157863: [geli] kbdmux prevents geli passwords from being entered properly on boot

[Thomas Steen Rasmussen]

The following reply was made to PR kern/157863; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Thomas Steen Rasmussen <thomas at gibfest.dk>
To: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen at fabiankeil.de>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, rsimmons0 at gmail.com, stable at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/157863: [geli] kbdmux prevents geli passwords from being
 entered properly on boot
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 15:20:26 +0200

 On 13-06-2012 15:01, Fabian Keil wrote:
 > Thomas Steen Rasmussen <thomas at gibfest.dk> wrote:
 >
 >> Just to let everyone know that this is still an issue.
 >>
 >> I am trying to install FreeBSD 9.0 amd64 on a Lenovo X121e and I
 >> can't get it to accept the geli passphrase during boot. I've confirmed
 >> using kern.geom.eli.visible_passphrase=1 that the passphrase is
 >> correct, and the same passphrase is accepted when the system is
 >> booted up.
 >>
 >> I've tried disabling kbdmux in /boot/device.hints like the PR said,
 >> but that didn't help. I also tried disabling atkbd and atkbdc without
 >> any luck, infact I couldn't type anything at all when disabling those.
 >
 > If disabling kbdmux doesn't help, it sounds like a different issue to me.
 
 You are right, shame on me for polluting an innocent PR with
 unrelated stuff. More info below.
 
 >
 >> Any hints or suggestions to what I might try ? I have another 9-stable
 >> laptop that mounts a geli volume at boot, no idea why that one works
 >> and this new one doesn't.
 >
 > Are you using the password together with a keyfile?
 
 Yes I am.
 
 > I've misconfigured the keyfile in loader.conf in the past,
 > which results in the valid password not being accepted.
 >
 > Obviously the setup then magically works later on when the
 > keyfile is specified correctly on the command line.
 
 This (a small typo in keyfile in loader.conf) was the
 problem, and I need to get my eyes examined :-)
 
 geli could be better at explaining the problem though.
 
 Thank you Fabian! Just what I needed.
 
 
 Apologies for the noise,
 Thomas Steen Rasmussen