(In reply to Alexander Nolting from comment #26) > Hello Thomas, > > I went through the new debug log and figured out the > systemd-ask-password-plymouth in line 945 - 15:52:20 is called and startup > is finished in line 2952 - 15:52:24 but I don't see any passphrase prompt. > > If I'm checking systemd for active units then I find the unit is active and > still waiting. > > Also weird is, that before the issue occurred changing between console and > plymouth while booting showed my everytime the passphrase dialog - on > console and plymouth - which ever is active at this moment. > The device timeout is still visible: -->-- Oct 07 15:54:08 linux-gwd0 systemd[1]: dev-disk-by\x2did-ata\x2dSamsung_SSD_840_Series_S14GNEAD229172E\x2dpart3.device: Job dev-disk-by\x2did-ata\x2dSamsung_SSD_840_Series_S14GNEAD229172E\x2 dpart3.device/start timed out. Oct 07 15:54:08 linux-gwd0 systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device dev-disk-by\x2did-ata\x2dSamsung_SSD_840_Series_S14GNEAD229172E\x2dpart3.device. -- Subject: Unit dev-disk-by\x2did-ata\x2dSamsung_SSD_840_Series_S14GNEAD229172E\x2dpart3.device has failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- -- Unit dev-disk-by\x2did-ata\x2dSamsung_SSD_840_Series_S14GNEAD229172E\x2dpart3.device has failed. -- -- The result is timeout. Oct 07 15:54:08 linux-gwd0 systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Cryptography Setup for cr_home. --<--- It is quite odd that your system with a fast ssd disk takes more than 2 minutes to boot. Not sure what is causing this delay. You might want to check via: systemd-analyze blame wheter some systemd services are stalling. However, in order to solve the device timeout, can you please set: x-systemd.device-timeout=300 in the fourth field of /etc/crypttab?