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There's a prompt on boot. After entering my password and hitting enter nothing happens and boot doesn't continue. It just freezes. I'm on 22.04.3.

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I'm having a similar but not quite the same issue. I'm posting this since it may be useful to you or someone else.

My issue: When I enter the disk decryption password on the splash screen it says it's wrong (I know it's the correct password since I frequently use the computer and have to enter this password).

@DanielT's solution in the comments of editing boot options worked for me.

The (temporary) fix:

  1. During boot hold shift to show GRUB.
  2. Select the first entry Ubuntu which leads to boot options
  3. Remove quiet splash according to @DanielT's comment
  4. Hit F10 to continue boot

Now there are some logs passing by until we're asked for the password. In my case, entering the password here successfully decrypted the disk.

Update: I used $ sudo apt autoremove to remove older kernels and now I can boot again without going through these steps. I'm wondering whether I was running out of space in the /boot partition and it was causing this problem but I didn't check how much space I had left beforehand.

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