Hello community!
I’m trying to install NixOS again and when I put encryption on the disk it asks for the password and success appears and to decrypt the error saying “r” Reboot or shutdown. and when it restarts it reports kernel panic. NixOS was already installed here and I had to format it.
I’ve seen this behavior too, no idea what the actual issue is. After 22.11 I had a lot of weird encryption issues, and ever since I “fixed” that the drive that was still working has been doing what you describe.
I.e., if I mistype my passphrase:
I think the root cause of this is related to whatever borked my encryption after 22.11, but I failed to debug it back then. The cryptsetup ML may be able to help, but there are some NixOS scripts mixed in so you would first need to isolate the issue, which is… nontrivial.
I suspect a reencrypt would fix it, too, but I have not yet bothered to do so, since it appears harmless, and I don’t want to spend 6 hours burning my drive.
As long as I type the right passphrase initially it works fine. Cryptsetup has some bizarre behaviors.