24.04: installer, disk encryption, power management: ubuntu going backwards in big steps?

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Mittwoch, dem 11.09.2024 um 20:33 +0200 schrieb Josef Wolf:
> When install is done, system wants to reboot. On new boot, it asks
> for the
> "recovery key". How/Why that?!? Thought, we are about tpm based
> encryption?
> Why is it asking for a key at all? In my understanding, recovery key
> would be
> needed only when original key is lost. How comes that original key is
> lost on
> the very first reboot? And why is it asking for the key which I have
> never had
> a chance to get any knowledge about?

seems you didnt read the full thread i linked ... this is the behavior
it shows when you did not set up your UEFI settings correct or did not
clear the TPM properly first ... 

> 
> Summing up: looks like this feature is marked as "experimental" for a
> very
> good reason!

this feature is used reliably in industrial PC installs with Ubuntu
Core since about 5 years in production, but the use on desktop PCs is
coming with a lot more variables, corner cases and options, which is
why it was marked experimental until all these have been catched and
reported ...

ciao
	oli
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