Comment 32 for bug 473615

Just another data point. I've been seeing the "asks for your passphrase 3 times" problem ever since I upgraded to 9.10 back in 2009-10, along with the "press ESC to get a root shell" type message, sometimes twice.

I only have /home encrypted.

Although it feels a bit like the passphrase input is being eaten by another program, I've tried various combinations of pressing Enter at the passphrase prompts, thinking that maybe at some step through the process, the line I enter will be seen be a passphrase reader and not another process, but with all the combinations I've tried, it always asks again at least once, and I've never seen any other program do anything interesting in response to my typing. In all cases, the characters typed appear as '*'s, not visible.

I do use usplash, and have to; the boot gets completely stuck for some reason unknown to me quite early if I boot with the text console. (It was fine in 9.04).

I do get occasional random boot lockups, but I've attributed that to KMS, X or some unknown kernel mystery. After all, X locks up every 1-2 weeks anyway (has done since 9.04; Intel 945GM graphics).

Luckily for me, apart from occasional boot hangs, I've not had a problem mounting my /home, after typing the passphrase twice or three times. I haven't noticed any changed in behaviour between 2009-10 and now.