Hibernation throws ecryptfs_encrypt_page errors on Latitude E5420

[J-P Stacey]

How to repeat:

I've installed Ubuntu 11.10 on a Dell Latitude E5420. My machine has an encrypted home directory, and /home is mounted from a different partition on the same hard drive: this might be relevant.

I prompy my laptop to hibernate by pressing the power button and selecting "Hibernate".

What should happen:

The machine should go into hibernation and then poweroff. When I restart it, my session should be remembered.

What actually happens:

Hibernation gets so far and then throws anywhere between a couple and over a dozen errors of the form:

[XXXX.XX] ecryptfs_encrypt_page: Error attempting to write lower page; rc = [-Y]

where XXXX.XX is a dmesg-like timestamp and Y is some small integer. These errors appear on a text-only screen i.e. X seems to have already shut down.

The machine then hangs. When I power cycle it (holding power button down for 5 seconds then restarting) it starts very quickly - suggesting it is coming out of hibernation - but my session has been forgotten. There are no open browser windows or applications.

More information:

As I don't know exactly what package might be causing this bug then I can't be sure what information to provide, but let me know what diagnostics I can run.
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AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: jp 1827 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'PCH'/'HDA Intel PCH at 0x95440000 irq 44'
   Mixer name : 'Intel CougarPoint HDMI'
   Components : 'HDA:111d76e7,1028049b,00100102 HDA:80862805,80860101,00100000'
   Controls : 27
   Simple ctrls : 13
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude E5420
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: linux (not installed)
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic root=UUID=5c77c568-6dde-4563-8a5b-a154e4f15997 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-restricted-modules-3.0.0-12-generic N/A
 linux-backports-modules-3.0.0-12-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 1.60
StagingDrivers: brcmutil mei brcmsmac
Tags: oneiric running-unity staging
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
dmi.bios.date: 07/10/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A02
dmi.board.name: 0675PR
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A01
dmi.chassis.type: 9
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA02:bd07/10/2011:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeE5420:pvr01:rvnDellInc.:rn0675PR:rvrA01:cvnDellInc.:ct9:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude E5420
dmi.product.version: 01
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

[Timothy Mayoh (timothy-m-deactivatedaccount)]

Does this issue occur on suspend or when you are not using an encrypted home directory?

[J-P Stacey (jp-stacey-gmail)]

1. Suspend works fine.

2. Not 100% how best to test an unencrypted home directory once I've already got one for my primary user. So I created a new user "testuser" and logged in as them.

I confirmed neither of these directories existed: /home/.ecryptfs/testuser , /home/testuser/.Private (not sure how ecryptfs is actually implemented.) I then initiated hibernation.

This time, hibernation "completed" (the machine powered down), and I didn't get any of the above mentioned errors. However, I did get an error of the form:

[XXXX.xx] firewire_ohci: Register access failure - please notify <email address hidden>

Also, when I powered up the laptop again, although it was quick to restart, the session had still gone.

So I guess there are two issues in this bug:

A. Hibernate/Resume does not work on my Latitude E5420 (session is not remembered)

B. Hibernate on similar machine throws ecryptfs errors when home directory encrypted; firewire errors when directory not encrypted.

Does that make sense?

[Timothy Mayoh (timothy-m-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please execute the following command, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:

apport-collect 883834

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

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