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I was taking a look at the logs, for safety, and I have found those logs below:

nori-hidamari kernel: [ 1829.683564] ecryptfs_decrypt_page: Error
attempting to read lower page; rc = [-4] 
Apr  9 08:52:13 nori-hidamari
kernel: [ 1829.683569] ecryptfs_readpage: Error decrypting page; rc =
[-4]

ecryptfs probably has something with encryption, but what that log actually means?

Thank you guys for helping me.

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ecryptfs allows you to encrypt specific folders, like your home directory. Unforuntately, the official Ubuntu documentation on encrypted folders seems to be very out of date.

I get these same errors and haven't found any good information about how to fix them. The configuration lives in ~/.ecryptfs, but that's about all I've been able to understand.

Unless you have particularly sensitive data, keeping it encrypted may not be necessary. It seems to create a risk of not being able to recover your data if something goes wrong. Another AskUbuntu question with several answers explains how to safely remove encrypts, which would presumably stop the errors. I haven't tried it myself.

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