Regression in ecryptfs-recover-private
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ecryptfs-utils (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I had given up trying to recover my encrypted home directory from my bootable USB key with ecryptfs-utils 111-0ubuntu5 and was encountering the error below. However, seems that a change in the ecryptfs-
Passphrase:
Inserted auth tok with sig [cc0ba99aac1dcfd8] into the user session keyring
mount: /tmp/ecryptfs.
ERROR: Failed to mount private data at [/tmp/ecryptfs.
The invocation was as follows
sudo ecryptfs-
...which prompts for the login passphrase, which seems to be accepted, but then leads to the failure to mount.
However, I tried running the same routine with the same USB key on an older machine (originally running Vivid Vervet 15.04 and currently with ecryptfs-utils version 107-0ubuntu1). On that system the identical procedure successfully mounts the encrypted folder, making me think it's a regression.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: ecryptfs-utils 111-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Oct 16 02:14:47 2017
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-15 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170926)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ecryptfs-utils
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.