Re: Intermittent inability to type in graphical Plymouth on UEFI VMs since kernel 6.9

From: Adam Williamson
Date: Wed May 29 2024 - 16:42:45 EST


On 2024-05-29 10:12, Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis) wrote:
On 29.05.24 17:09, Adam Williamson wrote:
On 2024-05-29 06:35, Genes Lists wrote:
On Wed, 2024-05-29 at 15:01 +0200, Linux regression tracking (Thorsten
Leemhuis) wrote:

     cpu i9-12900K  / Raptor Lake-P [Iris Xe Graphics]

   Sorry, this should be:  13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1360P

Does this happen every boot or only sometimes? Could you maybe upload
the full dmesg from a boot where things worked and one where only the

For me it is every boot - the first few key strokes are accepted but no
asterisks are displayed - and it works fine even though fewer asterisks
are displayed than characters typed.

That sounds different from my case.

Hmm, bummer. That might have made things a lot easier...

Well, it turns out I can reproduce this fairly easily in a VM on my regular laptop, which helps a bit. I've attached some logs to the downstream bug at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2274770 , and Ray is taking a look at it ATM. More eyes appreciated.
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