Reported by Paul Gonin on ML: Same issue here with Tumbleweed, updated to 4.4 kernel and LUKS crypted partition (but not root fortunately) Symptoms are similar but not exactly the same. I was able to boot when insisting... but protected partition is not mounted. Looking at systemd journal I could see that plymouth related issues : Feb 12 09:30:25 systemd[1]: plymouth-start.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=11/SEGV Feb 12 09:30:25 audit[1]: SERVICE_START pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=plymouth-start comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? termi Feb 12 09:30:25 systemd[1]: plymouth-start.service: Unit entered failed state. Feb 12 09:30:25 systemd[1]: plymouth-start.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'. I have had issues with plymouth and luks for dome time actually https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=948975