Inconsistent startup

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Im wondering if other users also have this issue that recently my system startup is inconsistent.

I have 3 major issues:

    1. I have a PC with 4 ssd that i mount at startup. Sometimes one or multiple mounts are just failing and i keep restarting until everything is mounted again (up to 5 times)
    1. My working laptop using a secret key for the ssd encyption. Sometimes the Crypt Service just fails at startup and i reboot until it stops failing ( up to 3 restarts)
    1. My private laptop wifi card sometimes is not detected and i have to boot multiple times until its recognized again (up to 10 restart)
      at least i have an errorcode for this one:
      probe with driver mt7925e failed with error -5
      But the solution for this errorcode seems also to be just restart and pray it works again

Im not sure where this issues are coming from. Could it be because i use latest kernel.

For me it feels really hard to troubleshoot because these issues are so inconsistent and when the system is running everything works as expected.

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Decryption failing might be an issue with your FS config, please ensure to use the /dev/mapper/... instead of /dev/disk/... for encrypted partitions.

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Have you tried with a different kernel? All these functions are kernel related, so it’s worth a try to be sure, since it’s easy to switch.

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Thanks a lot that did the trick. Didnt think about this because i created the encryption with the default nixos installer.

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for the wifi problem it seemed to get solved by the kernel change. i was using zen before and now switched to xanmod.

for the boot failures i changed from device to device-uuid and added more options

device = “/dev/nvme0n1p1”; to /dev/disk/by-uuid/uuid

options = [
“nofail”
“x-systemd.automount”
“x-systemd.device-timeout=10s”
“defaults”
];