Comment # 18 on bug 1047225 from Andreas Nordal

I seem to be getting this symptom both with and without nomodeset.
This happened after an update and reboot with TW this morning.

Neither the graphical or nongraphical password prompt is showing, working, or
giving any visual feedback as I'm typing my password for my /home partition.
Instead, I get to see either a HP splash screen or the last log message, and it
hangs there.

For all I know, it may be related to bug 1205309, which is more recent and
ongoing, except I don't have a keyfile in my /etc/crypttab and grub works ��������� I
can boot in single-user mode, but this may just be because I don't have the
problem of decrypting my root filesystem.
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1205309

I'm not using any proprietary drivers.

I'm writing this in single-user mode, which allowed me to mount my files,
switch user and run startx. Thank goodness this workaround works so well.