[Help] after update laptop is "bricked" due to luks lchange to keyboardlayout to us

Hello lovely community,

background story

i have a single purpose laptop i use once in a while.
today i needed it again and as everytime once i start it first thing i do is open bauh and update everything. Due to being used maybe once a month i had to reboot.

Sadly now i cant boot it past luks encryption since i does not accept my passphrase anymore.
i think due to it being changed to us layout. But i have a non us laptop and i used localized character like ä in my passphrase which i now cant enter :frowning:

is there a way to fix my laptop?

with kind regards

see here: Updated system and now can't boot (probably caused by dracut)
Short answer: bug in dracut update.
boot live system and chroot into your OS
then open /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/00systemd/module-setup.sh and change line
if dracut_module_included "10i18n" && [[ -e "$systemdsystemunitdir"/systemd-vconsole-setup.service ]]; then
to
if dracut_module_included "i18n" && [[ -e "$systemdsystemunitdir"/systemd-vconsole-setup.service ]]; then
then
reinstall-kernels
and it’s fixed.

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thank you so much !
will this be done automatically at some point?

i tried with several alt codes with no success.
After a while i booted pikaOS and changed the passphrase with gnome disks to a us conform layout.

but i would love to go back

it will be probably/hopefully fixed with the next dracut update. but to install it you need to get into your system anyhow.
so if you got access to your os again you can change the line in the file and reinstall your kernels. it should be a matter of 2 minutes and will be a permanent fix after you change again to a more complex password.

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dracut 105-1 is out which fixed the issue

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nice (:
got in and updated

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