Comment # 20 on bug 1173682 from Ricardo Minnaard

(In reply to Martin Wilck from comment #12)
> (In reply to Ricardo Minnaard from comment #10)
> 
> > https://pastebin.com/9RnWMc39
> 
> From the log, I'd hypothesize that the screen goes black *because the nvidia
> driver was loaded successfully* and started doing weird things with your
> graphics hardware. But I'm not a video driver expert.
> 
> Booting fails because the job for the crypt device times out, probably
> because you never had the chance to enter the pass phrase. 
> 
> Have you tried typing in the pass phrase blindly? Have you tried
> "plymouth.enable=0?"
> 

I will try this first thing tomorrow.