R4: Disk password input field crashing when typing special characters

[Ekleog]

Qubes OS version:

R4

Affected component(s):

Splash screen for inputting the disk password

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Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Have a LUKS password including digits
2. Input them in the boot-time disk password field via the keypad while forgetting to turn NumLock on

Expected behavior:

~Nothing happens (or ideally NumLock is turned on by default on boot), the password field sees as input the typed characters.

Actual behavior:

The password entry prompt screen crashes during input and falls back to a tty with (IIRC) systemd logs displayed.

General notes:

I unfortunately don't have access to the computer on which this happened, and don't have R4 installed locally, so won't be able to help much in debugging this… sorry!

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Related issues:

[marmarek]

It isn't crashing. Pressing esc, arrows and other such keys switches between verbose and normal view. You can press esc to switch back to normal view. But if you want, you can also enter your password in verbose view.

[marmarek]

It isn't crashing. Pressing esc, arrows and other such keys switches between verbose and normal view. You can press esc to switch back to normal view. But if you want, you can also enter your password in verbose view.

[Ekleog]

Hmm, from memory there was no input field clearly visible, but I couldn't swear that.

That said, is there a reason why arrows switch to terminal view? (The numpad only has Home, PgUp, End, PgDn, Ins and arrow keys when NumLock is turned off) That's unexpected at best for the non-technical user, who will be freaked out by any terminal (which is exactly the situation I witnessed)

[Ekleog]

Hmm, from memory there was no input field clearly visible, but I couldn't swear that.

That said, is there a reason why arrows switch to terminal view? (The numpad only has Home, PgUp, End, PgDn, Ins and arrow keys when NumLock is turned off) That's unexpected at best for the non-technical user, who will be freaked out by any terminal (which is exactly the situation I witnessed)

[marmarek]

Probably because those keys encoding contains esc char. Ask plymouth (the thing displaying that prompt) authors...

[marmarek]

Probably because those keys encoding contains esc char. Ask plymouth (the thing displaying that prompt) authors...

[Ekleog]

Hmmm that's likely indeed, so that's an upstream bug, will report to plymouth, thanks!

[Ekleog]

Hmmm that's likely indeed, so that's an upstream bug, will report to plymouth, thanks!

[Ekleog]

For the record, https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106934

[Ekleog]

For the record, https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106934