Comment 110 for bug 1386005

I'm unsure if this is exactly the same issue, but, yes I still have the issue that my password is not accepted if I just enter it on the password prompt and press Enter. What I figured out so far is that the problem seems to arise from the fact that my password starts with a capital letter. During Ubuntu installation the installer happily did accept the password, though and didn't complain that a password must not start with a capital letter or anything.

Now, when the system boots, I see the graphical plymouth password prompt. As soon as I press the shift key to enter the first capital letter of my password, plymouth disappears :-( And, weirdly, even though I pressed only the shift key, 4 letters already appear behind the text password prompt that I didn't type!? Because they are asterisks I don't know what letters they are. If I backspace them and enter my password, the system boots. If I just enter my password without backspacing, then the password is not accepted. Probably because it's prefixed by those 4 mystery letters that have been typed automatically.

Another workaround is to first type a lower case letter while the graphical screen is still on. Then backspace that and enter the real password. This will keep the graphical bootscreen.

Only problem: This is quite difficult to explain to some family members who get very easily confused by this... :-/