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  1. Maverick (10.10)
  2. Bug #509180
  3. Comment #142

Comment 142 for bug 509180

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Joe Edmonds (joee) wrote :

Ever since moving to an ext4+ecryptfs oneiric system, I receive this message about 6,000 times a day in /var/log/kern.log:

Oct 16 01:56:39 hostname kernel: [32384.222198] Valid eCryptfs headers not found in file header region or xattr region
Oct 16 01:56:39 hostname kernel: [32384.222211] Either the lower file is not in a valid eCryptfs format, or the key could not be retrieved. Plaintext passthrough mode is not enabled; returning -EIO

I don't know whether trailing garbage is being added to my encrypted files. But the bug about the kernel message is marked as a duplicate of this one:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ecryptfs-utils/+bug/372014

$ uname -srvmo
Linux 3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:56:25 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux