No keyboard input: Gui crypt unlock

[druBi]

When i restart, the gui unencrypt password does not accept keyboard inputs. When booting from a full-off, there is a different screen... Just text or grub, and password input works fine.

On 18.1 cinnamon

[Mattyboy]

USB keyboard?

I've had the same thing since Mint 18 was released, now this is debatable but has been discussed here before... It may have something to do with NVIDIA drivers. The person I discussed it with solved the issue by updating to the latest set of drivers but this didn't work on my rig. Another running theory is that, presumably, the drivers for USB keyboards are 'hidden' behind the encryption and something weird is going on with NVIDIA, not very helpful.

Try booting in recovery mode from the GRUB menu, this should allow you to enter your pass and boot. Bit of a weird one and a pain but this did work for me. It may not solve the problem as its been awhile since I ran encryption and there's been plenty of updates since my last attempt.

[druBi]

Yeah usb keyboards are handled by the motherboard.

Again, no problem booting past the crypt login into Linux.

The issue is that when i **restart** it hangs on a different gui.


Everything else works great.

[druBi]

Also id be willing to pay a mint dev or guru a little if they could help resolve this.

[superviser]

i have this same problem

booting from the recovery did not work either. usually it works and i didn't install anything except some stuff from software manager?

i am kind of an enemy of some online hackers but i don't think they could do anything against linux.

what should i do? this is on an imac with mint 18.3

edit: I reinstalled. Hopefully that never happens again.

[queequeg]

Also id be willing to pay a mint dev or guru a little if they could help resolve this.

I have the exact same problem, and haven't had any success in eliminating. I'm also using nvidia drivers, but updating them hasn't helped.

[fabien85]

Maybe try removing the 'quiet splash' kernel parameters, so that you will get a text based prompt to input the password.
To do so :
1 ) Edit /etc/default/grub as root

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sudo nano /etc/default/grub

2 ) Find the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" and replace it by GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""
3 ) ctrl+o to save the file, ctrl+x to exit
4 ) update grub to apply the change

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sudo update-grub