Through more experimentation I found a manual workaround that at least gets me 'in'.
After the splash shows "Waiting for /var [SM]" I try pressing "M" and nothing happens. I then press Escape to dismiss the splash screen. I press "M" again and get init: plymouth main process ($PID) killed by SEGV signal I then press Alt+SysReq+i to get to a root shell. I now manually mount the USB key and run the cryptsetup commands: mkdir /tmp/USB mount /dev/sdb1 /tmp/USB cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/mapper/Ubuntu-Lucid_var_enc var --key-file /tmp/USB/path/to/key/file cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/mapper/Ubuntu-home home --key-file /tmp/USB/path/to/key/file Finally I restart the mountall script: start mountall And the system continues on to start GDM. Now I have a way in I'll try to discover some clues on this. -- lucid: Failure to bring up cryptsetup devices by key files (when not using "splash") https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532898 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
