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initramfs-tools package

Upgraded 12.10 to 13.04 and boot will not prompt for disk encryption passphrase

Bug #1173836 reported by Luciano Chavez
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initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I have a Thinkpad W520 laptop that was running 12.10 and full disk encryption and software updater offered upgrade to 13.04. After about an hour, the upgrade completed and system rebooted only to not ask for passphrase and system drops to busybox shell since the / LVM volume wasn't found. Fortunately, I still had the older 3.5.0-27 to choose from grub menu and it prompts for passphrase and I can boot the system this way but attempting to boot the 3.8.0-19 kernel never prompts for passphrase.

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Luciano Chavez (luciano-chavez)
affects: ubuntu → initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
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scotdb (teamdba) wrote :

This also happened to me : Lubuntu 12.10 to 13.04 64-bit on a Lenovo U310.

I noticed that the installer removed some (as it said) redundant encryption packages. That may be part of the problem.

At the moment I am downloading a 13.04 boot disk to try to recover the situation.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in initramfs-tools (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Luciano Chavez (luciano-chavez) wrote :

Yes, I swear it mentioned cryptsetup as one of the packages to be removed though I find the command is still available. Thanks for confirming it is a problem.

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Scott (skielbowicz) wrote :

I have a similar issue when I upgraded to Ubuntu 19.10. I was thinking it was a Grub2 issue.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1851031

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