vt(4) and geli(8)

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 19 Apr 2014, at 12:05, Glen Barber <gjb at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> I once suspected it is some combination of ddb/kdb presence, and/or
>> serial console / multiconsole mode but I don't think that holds up.
>> 
> 
> I'm convinced this is a USB issue.  When I have a USB keyboard plugged
> in to my laptop, I observe the same behavior as Chris (on 11.0-CURRENT
> r264302).
> 
> When I am prompted to enter the passphrase and do not have the USB
> keyboard plugged in (meaning, my laptop built-in keyboard), do not
> observe this behavior.

If the affected cluster machines have IPMI (or similar) then they probably have a [virtual] USB keyboard plugged in..

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