[DC LoCo] Upgrading to 10.04 using alternate cd has me hung at bootup with LUKS

[Lucas Moten]

I never did get his issue fixed from a year ago and had been booting my
laptop using my usb key to unlock it.  Last night I upgraded from 10.04 to
10.10 without incident.  This morning, I went from 10.10 to 11.04, and the
system locks up during boot.  I believe it must be ignoring my key (script
may no longer be present to read it from the USB drive), and of course I
have no way of typing in a password due to the original issue with LUKS,
cryptsetup, plymouth etc never having been fixed.

At this point, I think I'm just going to reinstall the system fresh using
the Desktop CD without encryption so I can upgrade in the future.

Has anyone been able to successfully upgrade systems using LVM or LUKS ?



On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:48 AM, Lucas Moten <lucas.moten at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a laptop that I previously setup with 9.10 encrypted with LUKS that
> I'm now attempting to upgrade.
>
> I think I may have allowed the upgrade to replace a file or package that I
> shouldn't have (or vice versa).  After the installation, it went to reboot,
> and I get the dark purple background splash screen with the white and orange
> lights that cycle, but never does it show me the text to prompt for my
> password to unlock the device.  Assuming that it is prompting and just
> waiting for me to enter it, I tried putting in my password, but after typing
> only part of it, the lights stop changing and it is pretty much stuck there.
>
> Sometimes I get it to dump out to initramfs, so I think it's seeing my
> password as failed.
>
> If I can get back to initramfs, what are some things I can do?
>
> I would like to 1) be able to manually unlock the disk, 2) mount it, and if
> possible boot up, or at least be able to view files in the shell.  I have
> some notes of the files that it was stumbling on during the upgrade, but my
> lack of common sense didn't consider the fact that I need to successfully
> login to read those files as I saved them to my desktop!
>
> Is there a way I can view boot logs to see what its doing or tried to do?
>
> Is there any way I can set boot options, say, using a live or alternate cd
> disk, to boot the first hard drive which would give me a text only startup
> instead of the splash screen?
>
> Anything else anyone can throw at me for ideas would be helpful. - Direct
> responses or links to resources addressing these issues are most
> appreciated.
>
> Thankfully, I don't have any critically important files on the laptop, so
> worst case scenario is that I just set it up fresh.  My main system is 8.04,
> but I have no plans to upgrade it until I get another drive to back stuff up
> on!
>
> -Lucas
>
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