Lubuntu and Kubuntu 24.04 fail to decrypt on boot when installed on encrypted partition
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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calamares (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Test hardware 1 (Lubuntu 24.04 and Kubuntu 24.04):
VirtualBox, 2 CPUs, 8192 MB RAM, 128 MB VRAM, EFI disabled, Host I/O cache disabled.
Test hardware 2 (Kubuntu 24.04):
Intel Core i5 7400, 32 GB DDR4 RAM, RTX 3060 12 GB.
Language and locale: en_US.UTF-8.
Keyboard: Generic 105-key PC.
During installation, I selected manual partitioning, created an ext4 partition, checked the encrypt box, entered a passphrase, selected "/" as mount point, and proceeded with the installation. But after reboot when it asks for the encryption passphrase, and the passphrase is entered correctly, it immediately shows an error like this:
error: Invalid passphrase.
error: disk 'cryptouuid/
Entering rescue mode...
grub rescue>
This same problem occurs in both Lubuntu 24.04 and Kubuntu 24.04. But the same installation steps work just fine with Lubuntu 22.04.4. I tried different installation settings (VirtualBox/PC, MBR/GPT, BIOS/EFI, etc.) and all resulted in the same error.
This bug report is a followup of this question in Ask Ubuntu: https:/
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ProblemType: Bug
.etc.calamares.
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restartNowMode: user-checked
restartNowCommand: "systemctl -i reboot"
.etc.calamares.
crypttabOptions: luks,keyscript=
efiMountOptions: umask=0077
.etc.calamares.
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dontChroot: true
timeout: 30
script:
- calamares-
.etc.calamares.
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unpack:
- source: "/cdrom/
sourcefs: "squashfs"
ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckR
CasperVersion: 1.498
CurrentDesktop: LXQt
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 24.04 LTS "Noble Numbat" - Release amd64 (20240425.1)
Package: calamares 3.3.5-0ubuntu4
PackageArchitec
ProcVersionSign
RelatedPackageV
calamares-
calamares-
xfsprogs 6.6.0-1ubuntu2
btrfs-progs 6.6.3-1.1build2
Tags: noble
Uname: Linux 6.8.0-31-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo users
_MarkForUpload: True
Changed in calamares (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Won't Fix |
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.
If possible, can you boot your system (using 24.04 media you tried to install) and try the install again, assuming it fails again, please follow the following instructions AFTER the error has [re-]occurred.
Please execute the following command only once, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:
apport-collect 2064909
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