[Bug 820460] Re: User not created with encrypted home partition: user-setup exit code 32

[Daniel Swarbrick]

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.

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Title:
  User not created with encrypted home partition: user-setup exit code
  32

Status in “user-setup” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “user-setup” source package in Oneiric:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  RELEASE:  Oneiric Ocelot Alpha3 candidate
  CD/DVD VARIANT:  Xubuntu Alternate i386 and amd64 images
  ISO BUILD:  20110802.1

  SYMPTOMS:
  After installing using the instructions provided at http://testcases.qa.ubuntu.com/Install/AlternateEncryptedLvm , when restarting, I can enter the passphrase. When lightdm starts, entering the username and password results in "Incorrect password". Switching to a tty, entering the same information results in "login incorrect". Since this is an encrypted drive, I can not access any logs.

  STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

      Step 1:  install Xubuntu using the instructions for the encrypted LVM install:
                   http://testcases.qa.ubuntu.com/Install/AlternateEncryptedLvm
      Step 2:  Attempt to login to lightdm

  This has failed for me using two different hardware computers and
  VirtualBox.

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