Comment 30 for bug 473615

I will say that after some time, my current set up works a lot of the time (using usplash), but I occasionally get the same error that Dave mentions above about usplash telling me to hit "ESC" to drop to a console, but no keyboard input does anything (except ctrl + alt + del still reboots for me every time). It's really frustrating when this happens -- I usually have to reboot several times before it decides to ask me for my /home password and not sit there indefinitely telling me to hit the escape key.

My setup is a little different since I have / encrypted, but / *always* accepts my password on the first try, and *always* mounts properly. The only thing that doesnt want to always mount properly is /home, which is what causes it to give me the "press ESC to drop to a console" when it fails to prompt me for a password for this partition and thus can't mount it.

And of course, when it does properly ask me for my password on the /home partition, i *always* have to type the password in 3 times to get it to accept it. It's as if the first 2 times the input is being directed somewhere else or something....much like it seems to do when I boot without usplash.

When booting without usplash I also get the same symptoms as dave in that the first time I type my password it shows up in plain text on the screen after hitting enter always, and pretty much stays there for the remainder of that boot. I can usually get the machine booted by typing my password a couple of times after that though -- sometimes into a prompt, but sometimes without a prompt even showing.