.pam_environment not applied if home directory is encrypted

[Bram Geron]

Regression of bug #952185.

Variables in ~/.pam_environment are not applied when I start my computer and login. When I then re-login, they _are_ applied.

I have manually copied my ~/.pam_environment to the original, non-ecryptfs-mounted ~/ and then the file is always applied.

After #952185, the fix seems to have been to change debian/*.pam to run pam_env after common-session. But I don't understand why the line in common-auth isn't enough to mount ecryptfs. Perhaps pam_ecryptfs.so only does the unmounting in the session phase.

Ubuntu 17.10, gdm3 3.26.1-3ubuntu3
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ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-02-08 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20180105.1)
Package: gdm3 3.26.1-3ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-32.35-generic 4.13.13
Tags: artful wayland-session
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-32-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
_MarkForUpload: True

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[Bram Geron (bgeron)]

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[Bram Geron (bgeron)]

This is from a freshly installed virtual machine, for the purposes of this bug.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[S Birbalta (s-birbalta)]

I don't understand why this is not getting fixed. This bug means that a user with encrypted home directory can't have different locale settings than the system defaults.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

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[S Birbalta (s-birbalta)]

Yes, ~/.pam_environment is still not parsed in Ubuntu 19.04.