The behavior you're seeing is caused by the raw keycodes generated when
you press a key on the keypad when numlock is not engaged - the arrow
keys generate sequences that include the 'Esc' key, and the 'Esc' key is
the magic key that toggles plymouth between graphical and details mode.
You can sim
I have seen the same behavior you describe on my ubuntu 10.04, whenever
I forgot to activate Num Lock key. It is quite annoying, but you can use
Home key (if I remember it correctly) to return back to plymouth boot
screen.
What I think is a lot worse is that there seem to be no way I know of (with
Forgot to add one more link:
http://help.lockergnome.com/linux/Linus-laptop-Num-lock-status--ftopict410777.html
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numlock weirdness when typ
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: cryptsetup (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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