[ale] Lubuntu 12.04 Unable to login encrypted drive with wireless keyboard

[Jonathan Meek]

Hey everyone,

I have had the weirdest thing happen. Everything was along fine with my
encrypted hard drive using Lubuntu 12.04 and then my keyboard batteries
died. So when I started up the system and I got the prompt to enter in my
passphrase, naturally it wouldn't enter in because of the dead batteries.
So I turned off the system by holding the power button, put in a fresh set
of batteries and tried again. Once again, unable to enter in the
passphrase. Did a series of three reboots and tried each of the kernels I
had (3.x.19,3.x.18, 3.x.17, I think) but once again, no luck.

Nothing entered into the passphrase window & hitting enter did nothing.
Suspecting a hardware failure,  I went to another computer (already booted
Windows 7 box) and tired the wireless keyboard/mouse combo, which worked
fine.

To add another level of mystery, I can navigate into the BIOS at startup
with no issue using the same keyboard and mouse but once I get to the
splash screen lubuntu has for the passphrase, I am unable to enter it in.

So not sure what to do with this unfortunately. I am going to try a
standard USB keyboard to see if I have better results. Also, I am going to
double-check that the external drive that I use for backups is disconnected
to see if that's interfering for some lame reason.

Worse case scenario is that I might have to mount the encrypted drive &
double check I don't have anything that I need to hang onto from my last
backup (it backed up last week at some point since I typically don't create
new documents everyday nor do I use the machine everyday).

Any takers?

Thanks in advance for any insight.

Jonathan
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