ppc64el encrypted LVM fails to boot

Bug #1632790 reported by Joshua Powers
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Bug Description

Observed Behavior:
During the install of Yakkety or Xenial on a ppc64el VM system with an encrypted LVM setup, post-install fails to boot successfully. A black screen is shown after the grub prompt. The user does not even get to enter their encryption key.

Expected Behavior:
I should received a prompt to enter my encryption key and the system should boot up successfully.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Obtain a Xenial [1][3] or Yakkety [2] server ppc64el ISO
2. Start install, select "Guided - Use entire disk and set up encrypted LVM" otherwise choose defaults.
3. Post-install the system will start to boot and you will get a black screen. Text is printed in clear text, changing to other consoles does not help or provide any additional details.
4. If you reset and boot into recovery mode, which will ask for your encryption key and then boot into recovery mode successfully. Once there, you can continue to boot the system will boot up successfully as well.

[1] http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/16.04.1/release/ubuntu-16.04.1-server-ppc64el.iso
[2] http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-server/daily/20161012/yakkety-server-ppc64el.iso
[3] http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/16.04.1/release/ubuntu-16.04-server-ppc64el.iso

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[edit 1] - added original 16.04 ISO as also failing and clarified this is on a VM system, not baremetal.

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.var.log.platform: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/platform'
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8
Architecture: ppc64el
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-10-12 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Release ppc64el (20161012)
Package: tasksel 3.34ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcLoadAvg: 0.13 0.05 0.01 1/141 4544
ProcLocks:
 1: FLOCK ADVISORY WRITE 1929 00:13:511 0 EOF
 2: POSIX ADVISORY WRITE 1155 00:13:332 0 EOF
ProcSwaps:
 Filename Type Size Used Priority
 /dev/dm-2 partition 298944 0 -1
ProcVersion: Linux version 4.8.0-22-generic (buildd@bos01-ppc64el-027) (gcc version 6.2.0 20161005 (Ubuntu 6.2.0-5ubuntu12) ) #24-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 8 09:14:41 UTC 2016
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-22.24-generic 4.8.0
Tags: yakkety
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-22-generic ppc64le
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
_MarkForUpload: True
cpu_cores: Number of cores present = 4
cpu_coreson: Number of cores online = 4
cpu_smt: Error: command ['ppc64_cpu', '--smt'] failed with exit code 255: Machine is not SMT capable

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Joshua Powers (powersj) wrote : Dependencies.txt

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tags: added: apport-collected yakkety
description: updated
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Joshua Powers (powersj) wrote : JournalErrors.txt

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Joshua Powers (powersj) wrote : ProcMisc.txt

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Joshua Powers (powersj) wrote :
Joshua Powers (powersj)
description: updated
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Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa) wrote :

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1632790

tags: added: iso-testing
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