Comment 12 for bug 433051

this problem is currently happening to me as well with kernel 2.6.28-19-server, as well as -18, -17, and -16.

the machine rebooted and on boot, the initramfs was unable to unlock the luks partitions. In this case the partition is a md mirror. cryptsetup luksOpen does not work on either the mirror or the component partitions.

following someone else's observations earlier in the bug report I tried repeating the luksOpen a few dozens of times, but it didn't ever succeed. i am sad.