Workaround (tongue in cheek): if your system hangs and the disk activity light stays on for 10 minutes or more - press the power button and hold it down for 5 seconds!!!
My symptoms look more like a race condition caused by an implicit assumption about how long it takes to format the swap partition, rather than waiting for the task to complete... Should I open a new bug? -- Seeing "swap: waiting for /dev/mapper/cryptswap1" for several seconds while booting https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/461442 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs