Clean install with encrypted drive fails to boot

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Hello,
I just installed Fedora Workstation 43 on a freshly bought 500 GB SSD drive. The new Anaconda UI was beautifully approachable and simple. I went with default partitioning but opted for encrypted drive. Installation finished OK, after reboot I get Grub, select the newly installed Fedora, input LUKS password (twice, unusual?) and then the system fails to boot
Failed to start systemd-cryptsetup@luks...
and after a while attempts to enter emergency mode but root account is locked…
(The above is fully replicable with every attempt to boot.)

I can just wipe the drive and run the whole installation process again, but… any idea why and how this could have happened?

boot1
boot11000×672 192 KB

boot2
boot21000×672 182 KB

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“Failed to start systemd-cryptsetup”

Easiest to reinstall at this early point.

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Unusual yes, even with more than one encrypted disk, only one LUKS password is normally
asked for.

Are you sure to not have made a typo ?

You can try to edit the Grub Fedora boot, suppress rhgb on the linux line, then
press Ctrl-x. You will then be asked for the LUKS password in textual mode.

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You’re right, the double password ask was the smoking gun. I was inputting a wrong password (due tu NumLock not being enabled in Anaconda by default but being enabled in the LUKS input field by default, strange).

Nevertheless, I’m surprised that such a common thing as is mistyping your password does not end up in a more understandable error message (“invalid credentials”), ideally both in the GUI as well as the text output.