Created attachment 161597 [details] screenshot of partitioning screen SUMMARY Due to a failed disk I have to reinstall Neon on my notebook (ie. I know it worked before even though it was a while since I last installed). I'd normally use LUKS+LVM but that is broken (cf. bug 432305) so I amended my partitioning slightly to install the system first on a smaller LUKS encrypted partition and rsync it over to LVM later on. This resulted in a slightly weird partition scheme as shown under ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. Installation succeded and I rebooted. After the reboot I was not asked for my LUKS passphrase though but was presented with a repeated error message "cryptsetup: ERROR: luks-$uuid: maximum number of tries exceeded". Hitting escape shows a "No key available with this passphrase" even though I am never asked for one. After a while I got dropped to the initramfs shell. I can reproduce this; on a second try I even wiped all the partitions to make sure no leftover data confuses the system. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Boot into Neon User Live ISO (neon-user-20230907-0716.iso) 2. Start installer, go to Partitions 3. Select Manual Partitioning 4. Create a partition table similar as the one listed below: * nvme0n1p1 /boot/efi fat32 * nvme0n1p2 /boot ext4 * nvme0n1p4 / btrfs on LUKS 5. Finish installation 6. Reboot OBSERVED RESULT I am not asked for my passphrase and thus can't boot EXPECTED RESULT The passphrase prompt should appear SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: 5.27 (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.7 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.109.0 Qt Version: 5.15.10 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION neon@neon:~$ sudo sfdisk -d /dev/nvme0n1 label: gpt label-id: 56028DB5-15E0-B14B-9491-446745ACF82F device: /dev/nvme0n1 unit: sectors first-lba: 2048 last-lba: 1953525134 sector-size: 512 /dev/nvme0n1p1 : start= 2048, size= 524288, type=EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7, uuid=B1270D48-9AFC-3E47-BB5E-CB45B40611F6 /dev/nvme0n1p2 : start= 526336, size= 1572864, type=0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4, uuid=01CF4C26-88A9-954F-84B6-C45C144B07B5 /dev/nvme0n1p3 : start= 2099200, size= 1887436800, type=CA7D7CCB-63ED-4C53-861C-1742536059CC, uuid=027E6FB6-A0B6-8B4F-915B-4BA4187C4F98 /dev/nvme0n1p4 : start= 1889536000, size= 63989135, type=0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4, uuid=83F2B4C9-6EC5-A746-BD38-EBFD00EA41AF neon@neon:~$ sudo lsblk -f NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS loop0 squashfs 4.0 0 100% /rofs sda iso9660 Joliet Extension neon user 20230907-07:36 2023-09-07-07-36-06-00 ├─sda1 iso9660 Joliet Extension neon user 20230907-07:36 2023-09-07-07-36-06-00 0 100% /cdrom ├─sda2 vfat FAT12 D5CE-A750 └─sda3 ext4 1.0 writable e3683364-4fd6-481c-94aa-5fe3692b5b8c 11.4G 0% /var/log nvme0n1 ├─nvme0n1p1 vfat FAT32 EFI 1809-F832 ├─nvme0n1p2 ext4 1.0 boot 15a9a610-58a9-4111-bbff-4f3728c8e840 ├─nvme0n1p3 └─nvme0n1p4 crypto_LUKS 1 df816089-6730-443d-8141-9e86d02ba371
Created attachment 161598 [details] screenshot of partition details
I found bug 425213 and is this maybe related? That whole linked upstream bug report wants me to run away and never touch Calamares and Neon again... After some digging through the related bugs I found https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/1626 which is supposedly fixed already.
Ok, this seems to happen only in combination with btrfs as the root fs. I reinstalled again but this time with ext4 and this time I got my passphrase prompt.