On 06/12/2024 at 09:05, Franz Gratzer wrote:
Sorry if I am wrong, but yesterday I installed Debian testing from the GNOME live image and couldn't decrypt via LUKS afterwards because the keymapping was probably in English despite me using the German keyboard layout when I installed it.
There are no live images for armhf or arm64, so it cannot be related with the bug report you are replying to.
Unfortunately, I used an "=" in my pass phrase and the key I need to press on the keyboard to register this char on the English keyboard layout didn't register when I needed to type it in while it worked as intended when I tested it in the grub edit screen. So I don't know what is going on there but at the LUKS pass phrase prompt the keyboard seems to not even use the English layout. Or it might even be a different layout. I can't tell because it only displays stars.
At the GRUB menu, you can press "e" to edit the linux kernel command line and add the "break" parameter before booting. This will launch the initramfs shell so that you can check the keyboard layout and try to open the LUKS volume manually with cryptsetup.
I'm not yet sure how I could resolve this. Due to the encryption on a 500 GB HDD it takes hours to install and if I want to use the system I would like to set it up with the best encryption I could make.
If you reinstall over an unused encrypted installation you do not need to erase the disk again.
