lost data on upgrade to 12.04

[Mansour Moufid]

So I upgraded to 12.04 yesterday.

Now my home directory is mangled, with data apparently having been overwritten.

I use the "Private" home encryption feature with ecryptfs. Something must have overwritten the standard folders in my home directory during the upgrade, because the Documents, Pictures, Music, etc. folders are all empty now.

On the command-line,

    ls -li ~

prints two identical lines for each of these folders, each pair with the same inode number!

Everything else in my home directory (except for these standard folders) is intact, so it's probably not due to ecryptfs.

Thank goodness for backups, but that was a close call. Canonical should really consider *not* overwriting what's in people's home directories. Ever.

Back to FreeBSD for me!

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[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Hello
Can you please attach here, using the button below 'Add attachment or patch' the files:
/var/log/syslog
/var/log/syslog.1
/var/log/dmesg ,/dmesg0 , /dmesg1.gz
and all the content of
/var/log/dist-upgrade folder
Thanks
Fabio

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[Mansour Moufid (mansourmoufid)]

Looks like this a duplicate of #623708.

See also:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/62581/identical-folders-in-home-directory-after-decryption-of-home-directory-failed

This bug has existed for nearly a year (clearly not a priority). I'm not going to waste any more time with this, sorry.