USB-Keyboard not working to enter passphrase for encrypted LVM on Ubuntu 13.10

Ubuntu 13.10 was released a few days ago and I upgraded one of my machines. Everything went fine until I had to reboot. Choosing entries in the grub menu worked flawlessly but as soon as I had to enter my passphrase to unlock my encrypted partitions my keyboard (USB) no longer was working – it was dead. As I don’t have the option to use a PS/2-Keyboard (not owning such a keyboard, machine has no PS/2 port) I was locked out of my system....

October 21, 2013 · 1 min