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On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 20:44 +0100, Nick wrote:
> Package: src:linux
> Version: 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u2
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> * What led up to the situation?
>
> apt-get update, then apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> * What was the outcome of this action?
>
> Nothing unusual that I noticed, until I rebooted. On boot I see the
> grub menu, then "Loading, please wait...", then a blank screen with
> three small blocks (I think it might by 'plymouth') then it goes back
> to "Loading, please wait...". After 10 minutes there is no change.
>
> If I boot in recovery mode, it ends with
>
> ALERT! /dev/mapper/nickpad-root does not exist.
>
> and some sort of recovery shell.
>
> * What outcome did you expect instead?
>
> A prompt for my root partition's passphrase. Fortunately I do still
> see this when booting 3.2 (which I am using now), but then wireless
> doesn't work.
>
> Help! I'll be happy to provide more information.
This is very likely a bug in one of the packages that goes into the
initramfs, not in the kernel.
Which versions of cryptsetup and lvm2 are installed?
> -- Package-specific info:
> ** Kernel log: boot messages should be attached
>
> Er... could you be more specific?
[...]
Please boot in recovery mode and send a picture of the screen when you
get to the shell.
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings
Hoare's Law of Large Problems:
Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out.
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