Unable to boot after update

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Hi, I am running Fedora KDE 44 7.0.4-200 and tried to update my system using Discover.

After choosing the update and restart option I came back and found my system stuck on restarting (black screen, no activity, fans spinning) which is something that happens everytime I try and perform any updates.

I hard powdered off, waited a few seconds and turned my computer back on. I entered my luks password twice and then got an error message saying that warning: /dev/disk/by-uuid/guidhere does not exist.

I have tried booting in a live Fedora install and tried to mount my encrypted volume but I keep getting an error message about wrong password. I am very sure it is the correct password and even did show password and confirmed it is correct.

I am not sure what steps I need to take next to restore my system.

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Using the Live USB environment, check the “health” of the drive. Are you dual booting another OS? I removed Windows from my systems after Windows updates repeatedly messed with linux partitions.

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The smart status of the drive reports healthy with no bad sectors.

Using KDE Partition Manager I checked the health of /dev/nvme0n1p1 and p2 and both reported no issues.

I cannot check the health of p3 as that is the encrypted partition.

I do have a Windows install on a comple separate SSD and I haven’t booted into that for months. The Fedora install is on its own SSD and I am not dual booting.

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I have brought great shame upon myself.

Since the very first time I setup LUKS I had been mistyping the password so when I have gone to type in the “correct” password it would be wrong.

I will update LUKS to the correct password and count this as a very valuable learning experience.