Managed to recover by resetting the blade. manually mounting /dev/md0 before running the cryptunlock (stacktrace still triggered after unmount) from dropbear shell and removing the wily kernel entries from grub.cfg and reverting back to vivid's kernel.
Appears to be an interaction between 4.1.0-3 and either xfs or lvm and -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1487662 Title: cciss driver crashes kernel during boot To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1487662/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs