I did a fresh Manjaro installation and checked the checkbox that says “encrypt system”. It happend both on the ext4 and btfrs file system. My partition table is gpt on an nvm solid state disk.
I am under the impression that the first time after the installation, manjaro starts, but not the subsequent times. All I can see is the loading screen that says Manjaro with the 4 dots below it.
What could I do about it?
Is your impression still the same when you do not encrypt the system?
aka: (how) do you KNOW it is related to encryption? 
hardware and other contextual info required
I installed it before without encryption and that worked. Then I installed it again with full disk encryption and it didn’t work anymore.
As for hardware, it’s a lenovo t490 thinkpad, Intel Core i7-8565U CPU @ 1.80GHz × 8, 39gb of ram, bios version N2IET97W (1.75 ).
As for further context, I still have windows and ubuntu installed alongside. Now created a virtual box inside my ubuntu and tried to install Manjaro with FDE there, but it also does not boot.
Is there a way I can activate some boot logs?
Hi and welcome to the forum 
This is so much spaghetti that no one will be able to assist you properly without detailed info about your setup with disks/partitions/boot-loader used and it’s config etc
Keep in mind that mere telling what you have is not enough, you need to provide full command output of certain things…
Hi guys 
,
I also have a similar problem since yesterday, after I did a fresh install of Manjaro (Sikaris) Xfce due to renewal and restructuring of my SSDs. I used the latest ISO from the Manjaro website. The installation worked smoothly, as I am used to from Manjaro, the UEFI is configured correctly, as well as the controllers of the SSDs. Although this machine is a desktop PC, I performed the installation with LUKS full encryption. The first reboot after the installation worked as usual, on subsequent boots it did not continue, it stopped at the new Manjaro boot screen, however the dots continue to move but nothing else happens. Sometimes a warm boot with Ctrl + Alt + Del helps.
The problem does not occur when LUKS encryption is not installed, nor did it occur when I upgraded normally from previous installations.
(EDIT: I forgot to mention that it is a dual boot system, I have a Windows 11 installation on a separate SSD. But this is only used marginally, actually only for upgrading my navigation system and for a few small tests).
Here are the specs of the affected machine:
System:
Kernel: 6.1.7-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.1
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-6.1-x86_64
root=UUID=26f5bdc2-60fb-415a-a508-1f4f8ae73aad rw rootflags=subvol=@ quiet
cryptdevice=UUID=927efa36-ca3c-4b07-8da8-48f10235f01a:luks-927efa36-ca3c-4b07-8da8-48f10235f01a
root=/dev/mapper/luks-927efa36-ca3c-4b07-8da8-48f10235f01a splash
apparmor=1 security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.0 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.35 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm
v: 4.18.0 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: B450M PRO-VDH MAX (MS-7A38) v: 8.0
serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: B.G0
date: 07/26/2022
Battery:
Message: No system battery data found. Is one present?
Memory:
RAM: total: 15.54 GiB used: 3.13 GiB (20.2%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: model: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2 gen: 3
level: v3 note: check built: 2020-22 process: TSMC n7 (7nm) family: 0x17 (23)
model-id: 0x71 (113) stepping: 0 microcode: 0x8701021
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 6 tpc: 2 threads: 12 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 384 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 3 MiB desc: 6x512 KiB L3: 32 MiB
desc: 2x16 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 2308 high: 3598 min/max: 2200/4208 boost: enabled
scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 3598 2: 2200
3: 2200 4: 2200 5: 2200 6: 2246 7: 2200 8: 2200 9: 2058 10: 2200 11: 2200
12: 2200 bogomips: 86432
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2 bmi1
bmi2 bpext cat_l3 cdp_l3 clflush clflushopt clwb clzero cmov cmp_legacy
constant_tsc cpb cpuid cqm cqm_llc cqm_mbm_local cqm_mbm_total
cqm_occup_llc cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de decodeassists extapic extd_apicid
f16c flushbyasid fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibpb ibs
irperf lahf_lm lbrv lm mba mca mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor movbe
msr mtrr mwaitx nonstop_tsc nopl npt nrip_save nx osvw overflow_recov pae
pat pausefilter pclmulqdq pdpe1gb perfctr_core perfctr_llc perfctr_nb
pfthreshold pge pni popcnt pse pse36 rapl rdpid rdpru rdrand rdseed rdt_a
rdtscp rep_good sep sev sev_es sha_ni skinit smap smca smep ssbd sse sse2
sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 stibp succor svm svm_lock syscall tce topoext
tsc tsc_scale umip v_spec_ctrl v_vmsave_vmload vgif vmcb_clean vme vmmcall
wbnoinvd wdt x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveerptr xsaveopt xsaves
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
Type: retbleed mitigation: untrained return thunk; SMT enabled with STIBP
protection
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, STIBP:
always-on, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Navi 23 [Radeon RX 6600/6600 XT/6600M] vendor: Sapphire
driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-2 code: Navi-2x process: TSMC n7 (7nm)
built: 2020-22 pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports:
active: HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-1,DP-2,DP-3 bus-ID: 2b:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:73ff
class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Mimaki Engineering HD WEB CAMERA type: USB
driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-3.2:4 chip-ID: 0a50:6100
class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.6 compositor: xfwm v: 4.18.0 driver: X:
loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting,radeon alternate: fbdev,vesa
dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22")
s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-A-0 model: BenQ M2700HD serial: <filter>
built: 2010 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 82 gamma: 1.2
size: 598x336mm (23.54x13.23") diag: 686mm (27") ratio: 16:9 modes:
max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
API: OpenGL Message: Unable to show GL data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
Device-1: AMD Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
bus-ID: 1-3.2:4 chip-ID: 0a50:6100 gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s class-ID: 0102
lanes: 16 serial: <filter> bus-ID: 2b:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab28
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 2d:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487 class-ID: 0403
Device-3: Mimaki Engineering HD WEB CAMERA type: USB
driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
Device-4: JMTek LLC. Hex type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
bus-ID: 1-4:3 chip-ID: 0c76:16c8 class-ID: 0300
Sound API: ALSA v: k6.1.7-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.21 running: no
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: yes
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.64 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
lanes: 1 port: f000 bus-ID: 25:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp37s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL88x2bu [AC1200 Techkey] type: USB driver: rtl88x2bu
bus-ID: 3-1:2 chip-ID: 0bda:b812 class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter>
IF: wlp45s0f3u1 state: up mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Message: No bluetooth data found.
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
Device-1: luks-927efa36-ca3c-4b07-8da8-48f10235f01a maj-min: 254:0
type: LUKS dm: dm-0 size: 476.64 GiB
Components:
p-1: sda2 maj-min: 8:2 size: 476.64 GiB
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 4.54 TiB used: 85.74 GiB (1.8%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Innovation IT model: N/A
size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 9A0 scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Kingston model: SA400M8480G
size: 447.13 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 62B3 scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: Hitachi model: HUS724040ALE641
size: 3.64 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: A5F0 scheme: GPT
Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: ASUS model: DRW-24D5MT rev: 2.00
dev-links: cdrom
Features: speed: 12 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes
rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 476.64 GiB size: 476.64 GiB (100.00%)
used: 85.74 GiB (18.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-927efa36-ca3c-4b07-8da8-48f10235f01a label: N/A
uuid: 26f5bdc2-60fb-415a-a508-1f4f8ae73aad
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 752 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: N/A
uuid: 8B35-307B
ID-3: /home raw-size: 476.64 GiB size: 476.64 GiB (100.00%)
used: 85.74 GiB (18.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-927efa36-ca3c-4b07-8da8-48f10235f01a label: N/A
uuid: 26f5bdc2-60fb-415a-a508-1f4f8ae73aad
ID-4: /swap raw-size: 476.64 GiB size: 476.64 GiB (100.00%)
used: 85.74 GiB (18.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-927efa36-ca3c-4b07-8da8-48f10235f01a label: N/A
uuid: 26f5bdc2-60fb-415a-a508-1f4f8ae73aad
ID-5: /var/cache raw-size: 476.64 GiB size: 476.64 GiB (100.00%)
used: 85.74 GiB (18.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-927efa36-ca3c-4b07-8da8-48f10235f01a label: N/A
uuid: 26f5bdc2-60fb-415a-a508-1f4f8ae73aad
ID-6: /var/log raw-size: 476.64 GiB size: 476.64 GiB (100.00%)
used: 85.74 GiB (18.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-927efa36-ca3c-4b07-8da8-48f10235f01a label: N/A
uuid: 26f5bdc2-60fb-415a-a508-1f4f8ae73aad
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 512 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
file: /swap/swapfile
Unmounted:
ID-1: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 size: 100 MiB fs: vfat label: N/A
uuid: 187B-4247
ID-2: /dev/sdb2 maj-min: 8:18 size: 16 MiB fs: <superuser required>
label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-3: /dev/sdb3 maj-min: 8:19 size: 446.41 GiB fs: ntfs label: Winroot
uuid: 46707C15707C0E45
ID-4: /dev/sdb4 maj-min: 8:20 size: 619 MiB fs: ntfs label: N/A
uuid: 4432C26C32C26292
ID-5: /dev/sdc1 maj-min: 8:33 size: 3.64 TiB fs: ntfs label: HDD
uuid: 40C566FC10D41882
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 10 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-2: 1-3:2 info: MStar USB HUB ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
power: 100mA chip-ID: 1b20:0501 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-3.2:4 info: Mimaki Engineering HD WEB CAMERA type: Video,Audio
driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
power: 500mA chip-ID: 0a50:6100 class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
Device-2: 1-4:3 info: JMTek LLC. Hex type: Audio,HID
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid interfaces: 4 rev: 1.1
speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 0c76:16c8 class-ID: 0300
Device-3: 1-7:5 info: ROCCAT HORDE type: Keyboard,HID
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 500mA
chip-ID: 1e7d:300c class-ID: 0300
Device-4: 1-8:6 info: ROCCAT Burst Pro Air Dongle type: HID
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA
chip-ID: 1e7d:2ca6 class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Hub-4: 3-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 4 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 3-1:2 info: Realtek RTL88x2bu [AC1200 Techkey] type: Network
driver: rtl88x2bu interfaces: 1 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA
chip-ID: 0bda:b812 class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter>
Hub-5: 4-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 40.2 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 33.0 C
mem: 30.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 0
Info:
Processes: 333 Uptime: 1h 44m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 252
default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.1 clang: 15.0.7
Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1132 libs: 344 tools: pamac pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.24
thanks for taking your time @TriMoon
I am happy to give you some more information about my system as you suggested. As mentioned before, I cannot boot into Manjaro, hence I am posting the output of inxi I get when I boot into Ubuntu.
System: Kernel: 5.4.0-100-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-5.4.0-100-generic root=UUID=b183d1f2-f181-4fa1-9613-41930fb6e747 ro quiet
splash vt.handoff=7
Desktop: Gnome 3.36.9 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM3 3.36.3 Distro: Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS (Focal Fossa)
Machine: Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 20N3S4AH00 v: ThinkPad T490 serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10
serial: <filter>
Mobo: LENOVO model: 20N3S4AH00 serial: <filter> UEFI: LENOVO v: N2IET97W (1.75 ) date: 10/09/2021
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 28.3 Wh condition: 43.0/50.5 Wh (85%) volts: 12.8/11.5 model: SMP 02DL008 type: Li-poly
serial: <filter> status: Charging cycles: 658
Memory: RAM: total: 38.97 GiB used: 13.48 GiB (34.6%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU: Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-8565U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake family: 6
model-id: 8E (142) stepping: B (11) microcode: EA L2 cache: 8192 KiB bogomips: 31999
Speed: 700 MHz min/max: 400/4600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 700 2: 700 3: 700 4: 700 5: 700 6: 700 7: 700
8: 700
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_capabilities arch_perfmon art avx avx2 bmi1
bmi2 bts clflush clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb
ept ept_ad erms est f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht hwp hwp_act_window hwp_epp
hwp_notify ibpb ibrs ida intel_pt invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe mpx
msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pts
rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep smap smep ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2
tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt xsaves
xtopology xtpr
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Split huge pages
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2
mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics: Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 620 vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:3ea0
Device-2: NVIDIA GP108M [GeForce MX250] driver: nouveau v: kernel bus ID: 3c:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1d13
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 driver: fbdev unloaded: modesetting,vesa compositor: gnome-shell
resolution: 2048x1152~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 620 (WHL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.6 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel Cannon Point-LP High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:9dc8
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-100-generic
Network: Device-1: Intel Cannon Point-LP CNVi [Wireless-AC] driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 00:14.3
chip ID: 8086:9df0
IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
Device-2: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: Lenovo driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k port: efa0 bus ID: 00:1f.6
chip ID: 8086:15be
IF: enp0s31f6 state: down mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: br-b2c2d94161dc state: down mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter>
IF-ID-2: docker0 state: up speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> scope: link
IF-ID-3: veth0ccc3a5 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IF-ID-4: vethddb3be5 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
WAN IP: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 953.87 GiB used: 269.91 GiB (28.3%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Intel model: SSDPEKKF010T8L size: 953.87 GiB block size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> rev: L14P scheme: GPT
Message: No Optical or Floppy data was found.
RAID: Message: No RAID data was found.
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 116.42 GiB size: 114.09 GiB (98.00%) used: 9.71 GiB (8.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
label: N/A uuid: b183d1f2-f181-4fa1-9613-41930fb6e747
ID-2: /boot raw size: 1.91 GiB size: 1.85 GiB (96.79%) used: 171.7 MiB (9.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
label: N/A uuid: 5636cc2b-544f-47f7-ac12-a3d84c73247f
ID-3: /boot/efi raw size: 3.77 GiB size: 3.76 GiB (99.80%) used: 93.2 MiB (2.4%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6 label: N/A uuid: 59EC-FB17
ID-4: /home raw size: 238.42 GiB size: 233.68 GiB (98.01%) used: 170.51 GiB (73.0%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 label: N/A uuid: ed056b03-a749-4cad-9ab6-5251c19d67af
ID-5: /media/flu/virtualbox raw size: 325.96 GiB size: 319.85 GiB (98.12%) used: 7.31 GiB (2.3%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p9 label: virtualbox uuid: 4fc956f6-b0b4-489b-9a44-74a6352fbed5
ID-6: /mnt/fritz_nas raw size: N/A size: 101.1 MiB used: 1.3 MiB (1.3%) fs: cifs
remote: //192.168.178.1/Biniblublu/ label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-7: /snap/bare/5 raw size: 4 KiB size: <superuser/root required> used: <superuser/root required>
fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop2 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-8: /snap/code/116 raw size: 243.1 MiB size: <superuser/root required> used: <superuser/root required>
fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop33 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-9: /snap/code/117 raw size: 247.9 MiB size: <superuser/root required> used: <superuser/root required>
fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop0 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-10: /snap/core/14399 raw size: 116.7 MiB size: <superuser/root required> used: <superuser/root required>
fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop1 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-11: /snap/core/14447 raw size: 116.7 MiB size: <superuser/root required> used: <superuser/root required>
fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop7 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-12: /snap/core18/2667 raw size: 55.6 MiB size: <superuser/root required> used: <superuser/root required>
fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop22 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-13: /snap/core18/2679 raw size: 55.6 MiB size: <superuser/root required> used: <superuser/root required>
fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop9 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-14: /snap/core20/1738 raw size: 63.2 MiB size: <superuser/root required> used: <superuser/root required>
fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop31 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-15: /snap/core20/1778 raw size: 63.3 MiB size: <superuser/root required> used: <superuser/root required>
fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop27 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-16: /snap/core22/469 raw size: 72.9 MiB size: <superuser/root required> used: <superuser/root required>
fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop6 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-17: /snap/core22/484 raw size: 72.9 MiB size: <superuser/root required> used: <superuser/root required>
fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop3 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-18: /snap/gnome-3-28-1804/161 raw size: 164.8 MiB size: <superuser/root required>
used: <superuser/root required> fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop15 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-19: /snap/gnome-3-34-1804/72 raw size: 219.0 MiB size: <superuser/root required>
used: <superuser/root required> fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop13 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-20: /snap/gnome-3-34-1804/77 raw size: 219.0 MiB size: <superuser/root required>
used: <superuser/root required> fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop36 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-21: /snap/gnome-3-38-2004/115 raw size: 346.3 MiB size: <superuser/root required>
used: <superuser/root required> fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop20 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-22: /snap/gnome-3-38-2004/119 raw size: 346.3 MiB size: <superuser/root required>
used: <superuser/root required> fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop8 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-23: /snap/gnome-system-monitor/178 raw size: 2.5 MiB size: <superuser/root required>
used: <superuser/root required> fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop19 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-24: /snap/gnome-system-monitor/181 raw size: 1.5 MiB size: <superuser/root required>
used: <superuser/root required> fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop5 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-25: /snap/gtk-common-themes/1534 raw size: 81.3 MiB size: <superuser/root required>
used: <superuser/root required> fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop29 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-26: /snap/gtk-common-themes/1535 raw size: 91.7 MiB size: <superuser/root required>
used: <superuser/root required> fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop25 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-27: /snap/gtk2-common-themes/13 raw size: 140 KiB size: <superuser/root required>
used: <superuser/root required> fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop4 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-28: /snap/kde-frameworks-5-96-qt-5-15-5-core20/7 raw size: 436.3 MiB size: <superuser/root required>
used: <superuser/root required> fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop16 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-29: /snap/kde-frameworks-5-98-qt-5-15-6-core20/9 raw size: 437.2 MiB size: <superuser/root required>
used: <superuser/root required> fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop23 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-30: /snap/kde-frameworks-5-core18/32 raw size: 260.7 MiB size: <superuser/root required>
used: <superuser/root required> fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop30 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-31: /snap/kde-frameworks-5-qt-5-15-core20/14 raw size: 323.5 MiB size: <superuser/root required>
used: <superuser/root required> fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop18 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-32: /snap/ksnip/443 raw size: 4.7 MiB size: <superuser/root required> used: <superuser/root required>
fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop21 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-33: /snap/postman/133 raw size: 175.4 MiB size: <superuser/root required>
used: <superuser/root required> fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop37 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-34: /snap/postman/187 raw size: 201.2 MiB size: <superuser/root required>
used: <superuser/root required> fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop26 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-35: /snap/remmina/5570 raw size: 152.6 MiB size: <superuser/root required>
used: <superuser/root required> fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop28 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-36: /snap/remmina/5597 raw size: 152.6 MiB size: <superuser/root required>
used: <superuser/root required> fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop17 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-37: /snap/slack/67 raw size: 112.6 MiB size: <superuser/root required> used: <superuser/root required>
fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop10 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-38: /snap/slack/68 raw size: 115.8 MiB size: <superuser/root required> used: <superuser/root required>
fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop11 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-39: /snap/snap-store/599 raw size: 45.9 MiB size: <superuser/root required>
used: <superuser/root required> fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop32 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-40: /snap/snap-store/638 raw size: 45.9 MiB size: <superuser/root required>
used: <superuser/root required> fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop24 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-41: /snap/snapd/17883 raw size: 49.6 MiB size: <superuser/root required> used: <superuser/root required>
fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop14 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-42: /snap/snapd/17950 raw size: 49.8 MiB size: <superuser/root required> used: <superuser/root required>
fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop12 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-43: /snap/webstorm/294 raw size: 605.0 MiB size: <superuser/root required>
used: <superuser/root required> fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop34 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-44: /snap/webstorm/298 raw size: 605.5 MiB size: <superuser/root required>
used: <superuser/root required> fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop38 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-45: /var raw size: 116.42 GiB size: 114.09 GiB (98.00%) used: 82.12 GiB (72.0%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 label: N/A uuid: 0b74cdec-91ad-40d9-b6d4-d3c49baaf430
ID-46: swap-1 size: 15.26 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap swappiness: 60 (default)
cache pressure: 100 (default) dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 label: N/A uuid: b78b32be-c853-4f0c-8bf1-44bfbca65264
Unmounted: ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1p7 size: 93.13 GiB fs: ntfs label: N/A uuid: 16DED900DED8D957
ID-2: /dev/nvme0n1p8 size: 16.0 MiB fs: <superuser/root required> label: N/A uuid: N/A
USB: Hub: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 12 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002
Device-1: 1-4:2 info: Cypress Wireless optical mouse type: Mouse,HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid
interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s chip ID: 04b4:0060
Device-2: 1-8:3 info: IMC Networks Integrated Camera type: Video driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 13d3:56bc serial: <filter>
Device-3: 1-9:4 info: Synaptics type: <vendor specific> driver: N/A interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip ID: 06cb:00bd serial: <filter>
Device-4: 1-10:5 info: Intel type: Bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip ID: 8087:0aaa
Hub: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0003
Hub: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002
Hub: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0003
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 55.0 C mobo: 47.0 C gpu: nouveau temp: 49 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0
Info: Processes: 410 Uptime: 2h 12m Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.4.0 alt: 7/9 Shell: zsh
v: 5.8 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.0.38
I assume you can’t access the encrypted disk from Ubuntu (as it’s encrypted)?
CAVEAT: I’ve never done this myself, but I hope this info may help you - it may also be completely irrelevant!
I had something like this a few weeks back - In my case though it happened as I’d moved a partition from one disk to another - This resulted in a changed UUID.
The OS prober in grub picked up the correct, new UUID in one of the two lines in the generated grub.cfg file but not the other - To get everything working again I had to hack my grub.cfg to boot the OS that wouldn’t boot, update THAT OS’s grub and then go back to the primary one and update grub again.
With all this in mind…
I can see this being potentially tricky if grub can’t decrypt the other OS drive.
You might want to read my “Featured Topic” in my profile (click my avatar/icon here), it will explain some stuff which might be helpful to understand certain stuff.
That tutorial is meant to configure in a special way, but the explanations of certain parts might help you to understand what is involved with booting and encryption…
I recently did a fresh install of KDE Manjaro over my XFCE Manjaro. Initially I did full disk encryption through the checkbox on the installer (as I had previously done successfully), but ended up experiencing the same issue described here: First boot I put in my password and logged in, then on subsequent reboots got stuck on the moving dots as described by @LinKostik. I reinstalled, same thing.
Ultimately I reinstalled with no encryption out of impatience, which worked. Though I can not provide errors to help solve this, I can anecdotally support this being an issue.
Watching this as I’d like to confidently install with full disk encryption.
I am experiencing the exact same issue. Installed Manjaro last night and encrypted the disk with LUKS. It rebooted once last night just fine, but on subsequent attempts to reboot it gets stuck on a screen with 3 blinking dots that says Manjaro after I enter my encryption password.
For reference, I installed Manjaro KDE.
I remembered I could access the boot log files using Puppy Linux to get access to my disk. Below is the log information for my last boot attempt:
e%G/dev/mapper/luks-1f6d2a8a-2637-4e1c-ae19-a3a5b7e59ea7: clean, 344639/7241728 files, 3632101/28950838 blocks
[e[0;32m OK e[0m] Finished e[0;1;39mTell Plymouth To Write Out Runtime Datae[0m.
[e[0;32m OK e[0m] Mounted e[0;1;39mArbitrary Executable File Formats File Systeme[0m.
[e[0;32m OK e[0m] Finished e[0;1;39mSet Up Additional Binary Formatse[0m.
[e[0;32m OK e[0m] Finished e[0;1;39mCreate Volatile Files and Directoriese[0m.
Starting e[0;1;39mRecord System Boot/Shutdown in UTMPe[0m...
[e[0;32m OK e[0m] Finished e[0;1;39mRecord System Boot/Shutdown in UTMPe[0m.
[e[0;32m OK e[0m] Reached target e[0;1;39mSystem Initializatione[0m.
[e[0;32m OK e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mCUPS Schedulere[0m.
[e[0;32m OK e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mRefresh existing P…f archlinux-keyring regularlye[0m.
[e[0;32m OK e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mDaily rotation of log filese[0m.
[e[0;32m OK e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mDaily man-db regeneratione[0m.
[e[0;32m OK e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mMonthly clean packages cachee[0m.
[e[0;32m OK e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mGenerate mirrorlist weeklye[0m.
[e[0;32m OK e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mpkgfile database update timere[0m.
[e[0;32m OK e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mDaily verification of password and group filese[0m.
[e[0;32m OK e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mDaily Cleanup of Temporary Directoriese[0m.
[e[0;32m OK e[0m] Reached target e[0;1;39mPath Unitse[0m.
[e[0;32m OK e[0m] Reached target e[0;1;39mTimer Unitse[0m.
[e[0;32m OK e[0m] Listening on e[0;1;39mCUPS Schedulere[0m.
[e[0;32m OK e[0m] Listening on e[0;1;39mD-Bus System Message Bus Sockete[0m.
[e[0;32m OK e[0m] Reached target e[0;1;39mSocket Unitse[0m.
[e[0;32m OK e[0m] Reached target e[0;1;39mBasic Systeme[0m.
[e[0;32m OK e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mPeriodic Command Schedulere[0m.
Starting e[0;1;39mD-Bus System Message Buse[0m...
Starting e[0;1;39mAuthorization Managere[0m...
Starting e[0;1;39mUser Login Managemente[0m...
[e[0;32m OK e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mD-Bus System Message Buse[0m.
Starting e[0;1;39mNetwork Managere[0m...
[e[0;32m OK e[0m] Listening on e[0;1;39mLoad/Save RF …itch Status /dev/rfkill Watche[0m.
[e[0;32m OK e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mAuthorization Managere[0m.
Starting e[0;1;39mModem Managere[0m...
[e[0;32m OK e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mNetwork Managere[0m.
[e[0;32m OK e[0m] Reached target e[0;1;39mNetworke[0m.
Starting e[0;1;39mCUPS Schedulere[0m...
Starting e[0;1;39mPermit User Sessionse[0m...
[e[0;32m OK e[0m] Finished e[0;1;39mPermit User Sessionse[0m.
Starting e[0;1;39mHold until boot process finishes upe[0m...
Starting e[0;1;39mTerminate Plymouth Boot Screene[0m...
If your system boots after a fresh encrypted install (this is full disk encryption incl. boot) and subseqently refuse to boot - then logically something happened in-between …
The question is what
It is well known that a default Calamares install using full disk encryption GRUB may take several minutes to unlock and start the system. This is because it is GRUB which decrypts the LUKS volume.
I don’t know if it has become better but it has been a major issue at some point.
It is possible to hit Esc during boot to hide the loader - perhaps this will hint as to what is going on.
EDIT: just tested the minmal Plasma ISO from manjaro.org.
Full disk encryption - boots like a cheetah - so I am inclined to believe that yesterday’s slow decryption when using GRUB boot loader is now in the past.
At least for my test system
System:
Host: cheetah Kernel: 6.1.12-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.26.5 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Memory:
RAM: total: 15.51 GiB used: 1.16 GiB (7.5%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges
required.
CPU:
Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-8550U bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache:
L2: 1024 KiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1850 min/max: 400/4000 cores: 1: 800 2: 2000 3: 2000
4: 2000 5: 2000 6: 2000 7: 2000 8: 2000
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 620 driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: Chicony USB2.0 Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.7 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
dri: iris gpu: i915 resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 22.3.5 renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 620 (KBL
GT2)
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 7.73 GiB (1.7%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB
size: 465.76 GiB
I have rebooted the system several times now and there is no problems.
I did jump fall into the trap of using characters in my decryption key which is located differently using a danish keyboard vs grub’s us layout - no problem - I remember where the keys are located on the us layout - so decryption is fine.
Hi and welcome to the forum
Please create your own thread instead of hijackıng a similar topic next time…
Because it might look similar to yours in your opinion, it could be something different, and thus delute the original topic.
Hi TriMoon. Thanks for the heads up. Should I continue posting here or create a new topic?
Best to create a new one 
I will create a new topic then.
And thank you linux-aarhus for taking the time to confirm that you can encrypt your system and reboot consistently without issues.
I have the same issue. I have to ctrl+alt+del reboot several times sometimes before it eventually boots. I’m on KDE, so booting to sddm. Did not have this issue with encryption on Fedora.
I noticed the same beheaviour in a dual setup with windows.
If I enable the GRUB splash option, to use the plymouth gui for luks prompt, it stuck on load screen with the dots EXCEPT if I had previously restarted from windows: that’s the only case when the boot complete normally to desktop. If, from there, I reboot it will get stuck, even if I ctrl+alt+canc away from that boot loop and restart the system. I need to go back to windows and reboot to have my only chance to succeseed the next linux boot. It’s a really weird beheaviour because I even disabled the windows hybernation feature.
Aside from that if I remove the splash option from grub it loads without problem.