geli password prompt does not work

Pawel Jakub Dawidek pjd at FreeBSD.org
Sat Apr 29 12:23:15 UTC 2006


On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 08:37:13AM +0200, Martin wrote:
+> Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
+> 
+> >+> And after detecting the DVD-ROM, geom_eli waits as usually, but I
+> >+> cannot enter the password. Maybe the keyboard is just blocked?
+> >+> That might explain why I cannot enter the debugger.
+> >Could be, kbdmux is now on by default, AFAIK. Could you try without it?
+> 
+> 
+> I switched off kbdmux by adding hint.kbdmux.0.disabled="1" into
+> /boot/device.hints. Now the password can be entered again.

Could turn it back on and try the patch posted here:

	http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=405371+0+current/freebsd-current

PS. Please keep Maksim on CC, I'm sure he'll be interested in results.

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
pjd at FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer                         Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
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