[lug] face plant into glass door...

[Zan Lynx]

On Mon, 2019-12-09 at 09:59 -0700, Bear Giles wrote:
> 
> ... until I actually rebooted. The system started but blocked until I
> entered the encryption password. The problem was the LVM volume group
> holding the encrypted files - it's marked as 'active' so the system
> tried to open it and that requires decryption.
> 

It sounds like you don't want to automatically mount that at boot time.
I think this is the "noauto" flag in the fstab options field.

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