Comment 11 for bug 820460

I still had problems with an amd64-alternate installer from 2011-08-15. I don't have the installer logs, but it appeared that the installer kernel did not support ecryptfs (not shown in /proc/filesystems) and there was no ecryptfs.ko to be found. When user-setup tried to create the ecryptfs home dir, it naturally failed.

I managed to work around this upon the second attempt by chdir'ing into the target install's /lib/modules directory, and manually insmod'ing the ecryptfs.ko before responding to the debconf question, whether I wanted to encrypt my home directory. That seemed to work ok.

However, after rebooting into the new install, lightdm fails to transition to the desktop after entering the password. If I switch to another text mode vty and log in, it mounts my ecryptfs home dir fine, and if I then switch back to lightdm and log in graphically, that also succeeds. So it would appear that lightdm has problems mounting the ecryptfs directory.