Comment 33 for bug 870326

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reliable-robin-22 (nicolasdiogo) wrote :

hi,

i am having this problem after installing 11.10 amd64
after reinstalling 11.10 and re-using existing encrypted home partition i find these entries on my /var/log/kern.log

Oct 9 20:58:06 mypc kernel: [ 2406.561924] ecryptfs_writepage: Error encrypting page (upper index [0x000000000000001c])
Oct 9 20:58:36 mypc kernel: [ 2436.563442] ecryptfs_encrypt_page: Error attempting to write lower page; rc = [-5]
Oct 9 20:58:36 mypc kernel: [ 2436.563447] ecryptfs_writepage: Error encrypting page (upper index [0x000000000000001d])
Oct 9 20:58:36 mypc kernel: [ 2436.563482] ecryptfs_encrypt_page: Error attempting to write lower page; rc = [-5]
Oct 9 20:58:36 mypc kernel: [ 2436.563484] ecryptfs_writepage: Error encrypting page (upper index [0x000000000000001d])
Oct 9 20:58:36 mypc kernel: [ 2436.563519] ecryptfs_encrypt_page: Error attempting to write lower page; rc = [-5]
Oct 9 20:58:36 mypc kernel: [ 2436.563520] ecryptfs_writepage: Error encrypting page (upper index [0x000000000000001d])
Oct 9 20:59:06 mypc kernel: [ 2466.566910] ecryptfs_encrypt_page: Error attempting to write lower page; rc = [-5]
Oct 9 20:59:06 mypc kernel: [ 2466.566915] ecryptfs_writepage: Error encrypting page (upper index [0x000000000000001e])
Oct 9 20:59:06 mypc kernel: [ 2466.566950] ecryptfs_encrypt_page: Error attempting to write lower page; rc = [-5]

could you tell me what info you require to investigate this?
this problem is really worrying since it may imply that i could have my private data corrupted.

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3.0.0-11-generic