Comment 0 for bug 802197

encrypted-home directories were broken with the latest upgrade of util-linux.

The issue is that ecryptfs tries to find a sysfs mount point by reading /etc/fstab (ie, it wants to find 'sysfs' and '/sys').

in ecryptfs/src/libecryptfs/sysfs.c , ecryptfs_get_version tries to get the version of ecryptfs in this kernel. and then see if it is capable. That calls 'get_sysfs_mountpoint' which parses /etc/mtab for the sysfs entry.

The util-linux upgrade to 2.19.1-2ubuntu1 does not write an entry in /etc/fstab for sysfs.

The end resupt is that the user ends up with file *content* decrypted, but not filenames. They'll see a bunch of filenames with "ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED" in their name like:
 ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FXbGolSeisjWM-Qojv3ajQsDcC-kITIu0KUxZdKsa5gkZBtZLX12p7AKgcrQTja6Hep3FSW8okccMX6-
ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FXbGolSeisjWM-Qojv3ajQsDcC-kITIu0KUxZdKsa5gkZBtZLX12p7AKggO-5p.pSThbVFaNI8aX4-6-
ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FXbGolSeisjWM-Qojv3ajQsDcC-kITIu0KUxZdKsa5gkZBtZLX12p7AKgirB.sNgfbm-8lk0XZWwB-A-

1 possible fix for this is for ecryptfs to read /proc/mounts rather than /etc/mtab.
A work around for this is to:
 a.) log in as another user, edit /etc/mtab and add 'sysfs' entry (see /proc/mounts for example), then log in as new user
 b.) backlevel util-linux and reboot (so /etc/mtab is updated with sysfs entry via old util-linux).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: util-linux 2.19.1-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0-1.2-generic 3.0.0-rc3
Uname: Linux 3.0-1-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jun 26 10:50:31 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: util-linux
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2010-11-15 (222 days ago)