On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:23:38AM -0600, Dustin Kirkland wrote: > On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Alberto Bertogli > <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you need any further information (or want me to test anything), please > > let > > me know. > > Hi Alberto, > > First, my apologies for taking so long to respond. Your note (along > with a couple of others) got lost, having been picked up by > Launchpad's filtering.
Oh, don't worry about it, I really appreciate that you're looking into this. > In any case, I have actually seen this maybe 3 times in the last few > years. It is a strange bug, indeed. Each time it happened, I had > very recently (within that screen session) done an apt-get > dist-upgrade. I think it's somehow related to that -- possibly the > changeover to a new libc library or something. > > If you're still seeing this, please open a bug at > http://bugs.launchpad.net/ecryptfs, and please provide as *much* > information as possible about how to reproduce the error. I actually did on an email to this bug, on 2010-03-16, according to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ecryptfs/+bug/479248: > After discussing it with her, we came up with the following scenario that > seems to cause the problem: > > 1. She launches a screen session > 2. She logs off (her X session), leaving the screen detached > 3. She logs back in > 4. She re-attaches the screen, creates a new terminal, and it's broken. > > That reliably reproduces the problem. > > If the ecryptfs mount is automatically unmounted after 2, the working > directory of screen disappears and causes it to break. A "cd" fixes it because > it changes the working directory to her home, which is the new mount point. > > What we are not sure is that if the semantics for the broken shell are > correct (i.e. consistant with the dissapearance of the underlying working > directory). Is that useful? Can you reproduce it there, or should I check for some installation-specific stuff that may be interfering? Thanks a lot, Alberto _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ecryptfs-users Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ecryptfs-users More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
