Comment # 8 on bug 916895 from Ismail Donmez

(In reply to Dr. Werner Fink from comment #7)
> (In reply to Ludwig Nussel from comment #5)
> 
> > If the partition is marked nofail the boot should continue after timeout/wrong 
> > passphrase. Also, the correct passphrase should be prompted again if it was
> > entered wrong (crypttab(5) says 3 tries).
> 
> Indedd ... *if* marked as nofail, and for the three tries I'd like to know
> if this works on the console as here it does!  As here I'm using a serial
> console I've no plymouth at all.

Just tested here and it seems to work with plymouth here on my work laptop too.
Klaus can you please test without plymouth and see if it works? This should
give us an idea whats going on.