Exactly same symptoms here, mounting encrypted luks partition fails (hangs) during boot, dropping in recevery shell hitting "Enter".
Manual mount before login (CTRL-ALT-F2 to text-login, luksOpen and then mount /home) works correctly -- Boot stalls waiting for Luks encrypted external disk after upgrade to Lucid from Karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541857 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