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r00b
Aug 05, 2020Aspirant
RN428 - Waiting for encryption key but no encrypted volumes available
Hi together, some time ago I had an issue with my encrypted drives (encryption key wasn't found although it was on the pen drive). As a result I deleted all volumes and created new ones without e...
- Aug 11, 2020
Hi together,
I could fix the issue by doing the following steps:
- check systemd-journal.log to see which volume is causing the problem
- delete volume
- create new volume with the same name and encryption enabled
- delete new volume
- create new volume with the same name without encryption
(probably it's not necessary but I've done a reboot between each step)
Now the system boots up without asking for an ecryption key.
BR,
Robert
Marc_V
Aug 05, 2020NETGEAR Employee Retired
Welcome to the Community!
It would be best if you can contact Support so they can access it thru backend and fix it or if it's still possible, doing a Factory reset is another option. Doing OS-Reinstall might not work
HTH
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