After new Ubuntu 15.04 installation, startup asks for password even though no disk encryption was set up

I installed a brand new SSD into my laptop and did a fresh install of Ubuntu 15.04, with NO system encryption used (only Home directory encryption). However, it still asks me for a password when booting (I just press Enter to skip):

Additionally, after doing the fresh install, upgrading packages also asks me for a password multiple times, which Enter also bypasses. The program is "systemd-tty-ask-password-agent", so the issue seems to be with systemd.

The relevant message in the terminal:

Please enter passphrase for disk Crucial_CT250MX200SSD4 (cryptswap1) on none! 
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)

Broadcast message from root@username-XPS-13-9343 (Thu 2015-04-30 22:06:22 EDT):

Password entry required for 'Please enter passphrase for disk Crucial_CT250MX200SSD4 (cryptswap1) on none!' (PID 4027).
Please enter password with the systemd-tty-ask-password-agent tool!

The full output from running the upgrade:

+username@username-XPS-13-9343:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  ca-certificates firefox gir1.2-gudev-1.0 libcurl3 libcurl3-gnutls
  libgudev-1.0-0 libnm-glib-vpn1 libnm-glib4 libnm-util2 liboxideqt-qmlplugin
  liboxideqtcore0 liboxideqtquick0 libpam-systemd libsystemd0 libudev1
  network-manager oxideqt-codecs systemd systemd-sysv tzdata udev
  usb-creator-common usb-creator-gtk wpasupplicant
24 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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After this operation, 2,989 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
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Please enter passphrase for disk Crucial_CT250MX200SSD4 (cryptswap1) on none! 
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)

Broadcast message from root@username-XPS-13-9343 (Thu 2015-04-30 22:06:22 EDT):

Password entry required for 'Please enter passphrase for disk Crucial_CT250MX200SSD4 (cryptswap1) on none!' (PID 4027).
Please enter password with the systemd-tty-ask-password-agent tool!

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Current default time zone: 'America/New_York'
Local time is now:      Thu Apr 30 22:20:06 EDT 2015.
Universal Time is now:  Fri May  1 02:20:06 UTC 2015.
Run 'dpkg-reconfigure tzdata' if you wish to change it.

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Broadcast message from root@username-XPS-13-9343 (Thu 2015-04-30 22:20:19 EDT):

Password entry required for 'Please enter passphrase for disk Crucial_CT250MX200SSD4 (cryptswap1) on none!' (PID 15391).
Please enter password with the systemd-tty-ask-password-agent tool!

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Please enter passphrase for disk Crucial_CT250MX200SSD4 (cryptswap1) on none! 

Broadcast message from root@username-XPS-13-9343 (Thu 2015-04-30 22:20:47 EDT):

Password entry required for 'Please enter passphrase for disk Crucial_CT250MX200SSD4 (cryptswap1) on none!' (PID 19822).
Please enter password with the systemd-tty-ask-password-agent tool!

Please enter passphrase for disk Crucial_CT250MX200SSD4 (cryptswap1) on none! 
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Updating certificates in /etc/ssl/certs... 0 added, 0 removed; done.
Running hooks in /etc/ca-certificates/update.d....done.
username@username-XPS-13-9343:~$ 

Somebody posted a similar issue here, but that seems to be related to OpenVPN, which I am not using. I don't have the /etc/default/openvpn file anyway.

How do I fix this issue?

Solution 1:

It's a known issue, should be fixed soon:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ecryptfs-utils/+bug/1447282

In short: Under certain circumstances, systemd does not recognize encrpyted swap correctly and prompts for a password which has never been set. Swap is always encrypted in case encryption for home was activated as userdata might be swapped out and then become unencrypted.

Solution 2:

This is not the correct solution and as Christian says in the comments bellow it will make it less secure. But if the encryption is not a priority for you you could use this workaround.

First find the partition that has the swap

sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for kempe: 

Disk /dev/sda: 233,8 GiB, 251000193024 bytes, 490234752 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: B59D4149-AC8E-4B71-B51F-8926B2E82C14

Device         Start       End   Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sda1       2048    409599    407552   199M EFI System
/dev/sda2     409640 253319775 252910136 120,6G Apple HFS/HFS+
/dev/sda3  253321216 269320191  15998976   7,6G Linux swap
/dev/sda4  269320192 490233855 220913664 105,3G Linux filesystem

In my case swap is on /dev/sda3

then turn off swap

sudo swapoff -a

disable cryptswap

sudo cryptsetup remove /dev/mapper/cryptswap1

Remove the corresponding line in /etc/crypttab. I only had one line in there but you might have more so be sure that you remove the correct on

sudo vim /etc/crypttab 

Setup new swap area (remember fstab output)

sudo /sbin/mkswap /dev/sda3
sudo swapon /dev/sda3

and finally fix fstab line

sudo vim /etc/fstab

replace /dev/mapper/cryptswap1 with /dev/sda3

Enable and disable encrypted swap - Ubuntu

Solution 3:

I was able to solve this issue with the following steps:

From a command prompt, run gnome-disks

Find which device is your swap drive. Mine was /dev/sda3

ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/

Find the ID that is symlinked to your swap partition

sudo vim /etc/crypttab

On the line beginning with cryptswap1, change the UUID=… portion to /dev/disk/by-id/ID-HERE. Save and reboot.

If you are still prompted for a password, run:

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdaX bs=512 count=20480

Reboot again.

Solution 4:

Run sudo fdisk -l to find swap partition (i.e. /dev/sda6)

Grab UUID in /etc/crypttab or sudo blkid for /dev/sda6 (replace device with your swap)

Run sudo swapoff /dev/sda6

Run sudo mkswap -U UUID /dev/sda6 (replace UUID and device with your swap)

Append ,offset=1024 to the end of cryptswap line in /etc/crypttab

Add "/dev/mapper/cryptswap1 none swap sw 0 0" to /etc/fstab

Run sudo update-initramfs -u

Run sudo swapon -a

Check swap is active with sudo systemctl status /dev/mapper/cryptswap