I seem to have a very similar problem, although it occurs on both graphical and recovery mode.
After recovery mode drops to busybox shell I can then manually type: cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda1 root enter the password exit busybox And then it resumes booting fine. My system is upgraded from jaunty rather than a clean karmic alpha install. -- cryptsetup does not ask for password during graphical boot on karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/401063 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