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Bug#1080203: initramfs-tools: USB keyboard stopped working on LUKS prompt

From Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject Bug#1080203: initramfs-tools: USB keyboard stopped working on LUKS prompt
Date 2024-09-01 00:00 +0200
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On Sun, 2024-09-01 at 00:40 +0300, Henrik Ahlgren wrote:
> On Sat, 2024-08-31 at 23:22 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > None of the driver changes are relevant to this system.  You are not
> > using Hyper-V and Linux 6.1 does not include the USB drivers that
> > initramfs-tools tries to add.
> 
> I suspect this commit might be relevant:
> 
> https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/initramfs-tools/-/commit/5d28dad0e24020d43daf51a5c1e70eb2fe5b4ee2
> 
> Both onboard_usb_hub and onboard_usb_dev are listed. From kernel git
> history it seems to me that it is the same module, but it was renamed from
> _hub to _dev (31e7f6c015d). Bookworm 6.1 kernel does include
> onboard_usb_hub I believe, but I don't quite understand what it is exactly.

Well, the driver source is there, but we didn't enable it until later
and then only on arm64.

> When I have time, I might try to disable this part from hook-functions to
> see if it helps. I would not be surprised if this is was hardware-relevant,
> of course.
> 
> > I suspect that probing of your USB keyboard is slightly unreliable and
> > that it just happened to fail on the first boot after you upgraded. 
> > Please try again with the new initramfs-tools packages.  Also, if the
> > keyboard is not detected at first, try unplugging and re-plugging it.
> 
> I did try rebooting many times with same results each time. Also tried
> unpluggint and re-plugging and even switching to a different keyboard. I
> have never seen this issue with 0.142.

Well this is very weird.

Another possibility is a USB hub getting into a broken state which
isn't cleared by rebooting.  But this doesn't seem very likely.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
For every complex problem
there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

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Bug#1080203: initramfs-tools: USB keyboard stopped working on LUKS prompt Henrik Ahlgren <pablo@seestieto.com> - 2024-08-31 17:10 +0200
  Bug#1080203: initramfs-tools: USB keyboard stopped working on LUKS prompt Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2024-08-31 23:30 +0200
  Processed: Re: initramfs-tools: USB keyboard stopped working on  LUKS prompt "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2024-08-31 23:30 +0200
  Bug#1080203: initramfs-tools: USB keyboard stopped working on LUKS prompt Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2024-09-01 00:00 +0200
  Bug#1080203: marked as done (initramfs-tools: USB keyboard  stopped working on LUKS prompt) "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2024-09-01 15:40 +0200

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