Control: tag -1 moreinfo 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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