Comment 110 for bug 147623

There's a lot of noise in the bug from the metoos, so this will probably get lost in the noise, but I'd like point out one way in which this bug has a very negative impact on user experience. If a user sets up drive encryption through the installer, they are asked for a password on bootup. If you are using usplash, and usplash fails to display, then the user has no indication that they should type in their password. I verified that I can just wait a few seconds and type my password even though I can't see the screen, but that's not the ideal experience, nor the obvious response. I can get around it by running a 32 bit OS or by disabling usplash.

Hopefully the fact that this bug is high priority will mean that it gets fixed, but just in case, I wanted to make sure the developers were aware of this additional negative impact and encourage that this get fixed in some manner, even disabling usplash if encryption is selected, before the hardy release. Given the increase in popularity of disk encryption and 64 bit, I think this is likely to pop up a great deal if it isn't fixed.