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unity-greeter package

No keyboard on first login

Bug #1289737 reported by David Henningsson on 2014-03-08

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This bug affects 4 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	unity-greeter (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	High	Unassigned

Bug Description

When first booting this machine with daily 14.04, keyboard does not work. You can't enter password or select a different user.

However, you can work around this by using the mouse to start a guest session. After logging out the guest session, keyboard works as expected.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: lightdm 1.9.8-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-16.36-generic 3.13.5
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sat Mar 8 11:02:25 2014
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-03-07 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140307)
SourcePackage: lightdm
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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David Henningsson (diwic) wrote on 2014-03-08:

#1

Dependencies.txt Edit (23.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
LightdmDisplayLog.txt Edit (2.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
LightdmGreeterLog.txt Edit (5.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
LightdmGreeterLogOld.txt Edit (5.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
LightdmLog.txt Edit (8.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
LightdmUsersConfig.txt Edit (455 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (316 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) on 2014-03-08

affects:

lightdm (Ubuntu) → unity-greeter (Ubuntu)

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Rob Bosch (rob-bosch) wrote on 2014-03-17:

#2

I have the same issue on 2 different installs.
Workaround: click the keyboard icon in the top right corner. Looks like the keyboard needs 'activating'.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2014-03-17:

#3

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in unity-greeter (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e) wrote on 2014-03-22:

#4

It affects an essential hardware component (disk controller, built-in networking, video card, keyboard, mouse).

Changed in unity-greeter (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → High
Changed in unity-greeter:
status:	New → Confirmed

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Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e) wrote on 2014-03-22:

#5

Seems related to bug #1291015 (login screen no text input possible in password field).

Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) on 2014-04-08

no longer affects:

unity-greeter

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David Henningsson (diwic) wrote on 2014-04-14:

#6

I can confirm the workaround in comment #2 works for me.

Also, I have a hard time reproducing this. It seems to happen every now and then but not when you try to reproduce it.

Anyway, I noticed something else. This also happened on the lock screen, and when I logged in I noticed my login password in clear text. Could it be that the text written on the lock screen (when this bug appears) actually goes through to the current session rather than just silently ignored? If so, this almost looks like a security issue.

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