I had the same problem with my focal system. The computer ran for a few days and meanwhile updates were installed. After a reboot, my password for the root partition was no longer accepted.
The solution that worked for me was to convert the LUKS header to version 2. It worked with these instructions: https://gist.github.com/Edu4rdSHL/8f97eb1bab454fb2b348f1167cee7cd2
I had the same problem with my focal system. The computer ran for a few days and meanwhile updates were installed. After a reboot, my password for the root partition was no longer accepted.
The solution that worked for me was to convert the LUKS header to version 2. /gist.github. com/Edu4rdSHL/ 8f97eb1bab454fb 2b348f1167cee7c d2
It worked with these instructions: https:/