udev and/or kernel crypto issues

[Dennis Heinson]

Bad bad breakage since about a week ago. I chose "encrypt my home folder" in Karmic installer. An update about a week ago broke the whole thing. I am attaching a photo of the console output.

Please instruct me as to how fetch additional information should it be necessary.

Thank you!

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Hmm, this doesn't look like an eCryptfs issue to me. What about it makes you think that it's eCryptfs-related?

I'm going to add linux and udev to the affected packages, as it looks like a bug introduced there, perhaps?

:-Dustin

[Gabe Gorelick (gabegorelick)]

There's a lot of known bugs with booting encrypted filesystems in Karmic. Can you check to see if this bug is a duplicate of bug #421876 or #430496?

[Dennis Heinson (dheinson)]

Thank you for the reply Dustin and Gabe. No, this doesn't look similar to the descriptions in those bugs. Can you deduct anything from the screenshot? Can you give me instructions on how to further debug? It surprises me that noone else has encountered the same problem.
I can 100% reproduce on new installs.

Thanks
Dennis

[Gabe Gorelick (gabegorelick)]

Taking a closer look at your screenshot, it looks like the top warnings about "NAME=%k" are related to bug #430654, which should be fixed now. That should not affect your boot though, as they're just harmless warnings. The stuff at the bottom is the real source of the bug.

[Dennis Heinson (dheinson)]

Here is something I tried last night:

Download karmic daily build (live)
Put on USB stick
Clean install to free space on HDD
(select encrypted home)
boot

---> same error

So there must be something in an update that occurred at around last friday or so that breaks the whole thing. Perhaps a dev should try to reproduce in a VM?

[Dennis Heinson (dheinson)]

In https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/418514/comments/3 someone seems to have a similar problem.

[Dennis Heinson (dheinson)]

Sorry for the multiple posts. This may relate too: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/206129

[Dennis Heinson (dheinson)]

Doesn't occur any longer. Please go ahead and close. Thank you.