I did spend some time looking at the log and while I do not find any evidence of a crash as indicated by Paul, see comment #7, I do think it is a matter of plymouth just not displaying the request for the passphrase. >From the log: Feb 12 07:53:31 rush systemd[1]: Started Forward Password Requests to Plymouth. Feb 12 07:53:31 rush audit[1]: SERVICE_START pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=systemd-journal-flush comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success' After this the log continues to accumulate messages and then eventually... Feb 12 07:53:47 rush systemd[1]: Received SIGINT. Which is basically when I hit Ctrl-Alt Delete to restart the system as I simply cannot enter the passphrase for the encrypted partition. I would say it's a plymouth problem.