[karmic beta] ecryptfs installed w/updates!

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Tue, 10/20/09, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> From: NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: [karmic beta] ecryptfs installed w/updates!
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 5:46 PM
> This has happend twice on two
> different machines; run updates via the
> upgrade-manager and find that I can't boot into gdm. For
> some reason my
> home gets turned into a ecryptfs encrypted directory.
> Un-frigging
> believable!
> 
> The first time this happened was before beta & I simply
> reinstalled.
> However today's machine was a beta install that was only
> about 5 days
> out of sync with the updates. So I update it; find a
> 'Private' folder in
> my home directory & find that the POS has been
> encrypted. So I manage to
> figure out how to ecryptfs-mount-private & give it my
> login password to
> uncrypt the damn thing. Note that I'd not installed
> ecryptfs when the
> system was installed.
> 
> Of course, prior to realizing that ecryptfs had been
> installed & my home
> directory had been encrypted, I thought something was wrong
> with the
> drive (could only boot to root). So, like a fool I went
> ahead and did an
> fsck... which of course decided that some of the inodes
> were screwed up
> & offered to "fix" them. Of course I just kept pushing
> 'Y'...
> Arggh!
> 
> Occurred when with updates going from kernel -13 to -14. I
> seem to
> recall that this is when it happened on the other machine
> as well.
> 
> Anyone else had this happen to them, or is it just my lucky
> day?
> 
Didn't happen to me on my 64 bit Beta, but kernel -14 update is
when I started getting all the ECC(spelling) kernel errors(several at a time) and nautilus crashes when it wasn't even loaded. I had nautilus loaded one time and closed it out; now just about everytime I reboot, I get a kdesudo request and a notice about nautilus crashing.  Also, get messages about kwin crashing or something to that effect.  I does appear that the last couple of Beta upgrades are making the system worse than better.  Ineed to remove nvidia185 to see if that stops
all the error messages as some have reported.
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net