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  1. Bug #883834
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Comment 0 for bug 883834

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J-P Stacey (jp-stacey-gmail) wrote :

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.