Bug#1021672: udev: No USB (no keyboard nor FIDO token!) at boot after update from udev 251.5-1 to 252.5-2

[Michael Biebl]

On Wed, 12 Oct 2022 19:39:40 +0200 Matteo Settenvini 
<matteo.settenvini at montecristosoftware.eu> wrote:
> Package: udev
> Version: 251.5-2
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks the whole system
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I have a root partition (separate from the boot partition) which is 
> encrypted with LUKS and unlocked at boot.
> 
> After an upgrade to udev 251.5-2, keyboard, mouse, and FIDO 
> token (all three USB devices) are not primed during boot. This is 
> easy to see by just attempting to hit BlockNum on the keyboard 
> (the light does not come on).
> 
> Hence, there is no way anymore for me to unlock the root
> filesystem, which renders the whole system unusable.
> 
> Note: I use dracut, although I do not think it is to blame here.
> 
> Booting from a USB pendrive, and downgrading to udev 251.5-1 
> (along with systemd) fixes the issue.
> 
> Let me know how I can provider better information to you.

Please remove "debug" from the kernel command line and capture the log 
messages
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