Bug#451535: This bug just ate my LVM2 volume group.
I totally empathise with Ian's frustration. I myself spent eight hours
trying to circumvent this 'bug', to put it mildly. I tried to follow a
half-dozen contradictory, inaccurate and incomplete walkthroughs with
no success, so I'm giving up and starting from scratch.
The walkthrough at
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Rescue/Crypto does not exist.
As this bug hasn't been addressed in 8 years, it may be worth giving
up on it. If so, there should at least be bold warnings to anybody
tempted to set up encrypted volumes that they will not be reusable if
one needs to reinstall Debian unless they have highly advanced
knowledge of hand-writing configuration files from rescue CDs. This
would, at least, stop hundreds of aggregate human hours from being
wasted.
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