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My $HOME directory is encrypted. It was ok in 13.10, but, after upgraded to 14.04 desktop by do-release-upgrade, I can log in, however, the home hasn't been decrypted, and cause many application crash.

If I open nautilus for $HOME, I can see this:

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After I clicked the Access-Your-Private-Data.desktop and input my password, which is not changed during the upgrade, I can see my HOME directory for a while, not very long.

I found if I log in the system through SSH, I can see my all files in $HOME, which means ssh can trigger the decryption correctly. But it doesn't work if I log in through gdm or lightdm.

What I have to do now is create another user, and log in the new user first, and ssh olduser@localhost to trigger the decryption, and SWITCH back to old user, then the HOME directory works for some times.

Another strange thing is that, sometimes, even the ssh still can access decrypted files, but the GUI failed to access anything.

Is there anyone have the same problem with me? Does anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks.

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  • That's probably a known issue wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes#Known_issues
    – Braiam
    Apr 19, 2014 at 21:38
  • @Braiam There is nothing talking about ecryptfs in Known Issues at this time. Sep 24, 2014 at 23:51
  • @BarryKelly "Upgrade" session, this bug.
    – Braiam
    Sep 24, 2014 at 23:58
  • Is this issue still reproducible?
    – Braiam
    Sep 24, 2014 at 23:58
  • @Briam You can read that that bug is different. That would be a failure for the user to login. In any case, I'm having a failure with ecryptfs after upgrading to 14.04, but it's caused by /dev/shm not existing. Workaround: symbolic ln -s /run/shm /dev/shm. Sep 25, 2014 at 0:18

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Make sure the ecryptfs filesystem is installed:

sudo apt-get install ecryptfs-utils

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