Bugzilla – Bug 1024240
Full disk encrypted Tumbleweed installation unbootable since update approx. 1 week ago
Last modified: 2017-02-08 14:44:24 UTC
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:51.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/51.0 Build Identifier: Hello everybody, since a YAST/Zypper update approx 7-9 days ago, my otherwise solid tumbleweed installation on an XPS13 9560 is left in an unbootable state. As far as I can see, problems start on boot with systemd-escape: invalid option -- '5' Failed to start systemd-cryptsetup@lusk.service: Unit systemd-cryptsetup@lusk.service not found. Wait a few minutes, then repeating Warning: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts. ... Disk setup is on a NVME SSD with GPT partition 1 as a vfat EFI partition, Part. 2 is btrfs /boot, Part. 3 is LUKS encrpyted / with LVM underneath giving /,/swap and /home after successfull decryption. After dropping in dracut rescue shell, somewhat successfull boot is possible with cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/nvme...p3 /crypt lvm vgchange -a y exit though I believe I skipped swap with this as a side effect/ommitance. After trying to solve this for literally hours, all I came up with is that I have an empty /etc/crypttab (0 bytes) in my initrd, as opposed to a one liner on the booted root system (and also on another notebook still on kernel 4.8.x, as it was not updated for a couple of months). Copying the system crypttab in the initrd did not help though. I belive this is a critical bug, at least for me it sure is :-( Very willing to give further info and try solutions, thanks a lot, Joost Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot 2. Boot sequence stuck as noted above. 3.
Two further notes: - adding the system /etc/crypttab manually to the initrd via xz ... | cpio unpacking and repacking does not help; still not asking for pw/booting though verified that the crypttab made it in the initrd - due to some kind of small change or ommitance, I am not able to boot anymore via any way, also not with the manual steps outlined above (though the boot process continues, the desktop does not come up and switching to a text console/login is not working, the computer is only reacting to ctrl-alt-del and rebooting). So right now I'm out of ideas.
As noted by the reporter, this is a duplicate of #904987. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 904987 ***