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I initially installed Ubuntu 11.04 with an encrypted file system (from the alternate install CD: Guided Partitioning, LVM encrypted). Now I wanted to change this setup to have my root file system on an unencrypted partition.

I had the following setup before:

/dev/mapper/my-root on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,commit=0,commit=0)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw,noatime)
  • I backed up /, reformatted /dev/sda5 (which had contained the encrypted LVM device) to an ext3 partition, and restored / to that partition.
  • I edited /etc/fstab, removed the line /dev/mapper/my-root / ..., and added the line: /dev/sda5 / ext3 noatime,rw,errors=remount-ro,commit=0 0 1
  • I edited /etc/crypttab, and commented out the single entry.

On reboot, I get the grub screen as usual, but then I get the message cryptsetup:evms_activate is not available, waiting for encrypted source device.

I tried reinstalling Grub2 using a LiveCD with the ChRoot method, but that didn't make any difference.

Why is Ubuntu still searching for an encrypted device?

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I somehow "fixed" it - however, I don't know for sure, which of the following actions was responsible:

I chrooted again, then I ran

dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc
dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.38-8-generic

update-grub
grub-install /dev/sda 
      (these last two steps I had already done before without success)

Also, I completely removed /etc/crypttab now (previously, I had only commented the line).

The error is gone now, but I would prefer to accept an answer which explains what happened here, and how to solve the problem a little bit less "chaotically" :-)

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  • Fixing /etc/crypttab was the key!
    – user17007
    Aug 4, 2012 at 14:15

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