Comment 46 for bug 430496

I am also experiencing this with Karmic. I find that I have to enter my passphrase multiple times. Sometimes it doesn't work at all, and I have to Ctrl/Alt/Del, reboot, and then try again. Eventually the system gets my passphrase, but this is clearly a mission critical problem. I haven't seen the password prompt not appear - rather something appears to be eating my keystrokes.

My crypttab is:

  lap1:[~] % cat /etc/crypttab
  # <target name> <source device> <key file> <options>
  crypt-home /dev/sda3 none luks

fstab:

  dev/mapper/crypt-home /home ext3 defaults,relatime 0 2

Will adding 'bootwait' to the fstab options help ?

Pete