vt(4) and geli(8)

Fri Apr 18 17:49:57 UTC 2014

On 04/18/2014 08:36, Greg Rivers wrote:
> The new vt system console looks really nice.  But on hosts that have 
> geli encrypted devices that prompt for the passphrase at boot, no 
> keyboard input reaches geli.  The keyboard doesn't appear to be dead, 
> as the caps-lock and num-lock keys toggle; geli just doesn't receive 
> any input. This is on 10-STABLE amd64 built from yesterday's sources. 
> "hw.vga.textmode=1" doesn't make any difference.
>
> Has anyone else encountered this?
>

I run encrypted ZFS with vt(4) on -CURRENT right now and I've not had 
any issues with entering my passphrase. There might be a bug fix that 
ray@ hasn't had a chance to merge from current just yet.