Hi Dustin, I have now tried and failed to recreate the problem with new user accounts (created at console and via user-admin). As indicated previously, because these have all been "default" content files I have been able to solve the problem by deleting them and recreating them.
I think you are right that without further instances, or the ability to "recreate at will", this problem will be difficult to understand let alone resolve. With this one report (this one) and an easy solution (delete the offending files from a console) I'd be inclined to let it lie. Have fun, Duncan -- Encrypted home directory file Input/output error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/426272 You received this bug notification because you are a member of eCryptfs, which is subscribed to ecryptfs-utils in ubuntu. Status in “ecryptfs-utils” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: This is a fresh install of karmic koala alpha-5 (Ubuntu karmic (development branch)) on a new machine using the alternate install CCD (required LVM+software RAID). The "encrypt home directory" option was selected during the install. Once complete I was unable to log in via GDM. This reported problems accessing the $HOME/.ICEauthority file. Logging in via the console was possible. Attempts to read or modify (chown||chmod) the .ICEauthority file as the user or root (again from console) failed with "Input/output error". Ultimately this was resolved by deleting then recreating (touch .ICEauthority) the file as root. I have now encountered the same problem accessing files in the $HOME/.gnupg directory while trying to import keys. A simple script which does an fopen()/fclose() on all files under $HOME when run as either the user or root returns: Unable to open /home/djf/.compiz-gnomecompat Unable to open /home/djf/.pulse-cookie Unable to open /home/djf/gnupg/secring.gpg Unable to open /home/djf/gnupg/gpg.conf Unable to open /home/djf/gnupg/trustdb.gpg Unable to open /home/djf/gnupg/pubring.gpg Unable to open /home/djf/.config/compiz/compizconfig/config Unable to open /home/djf/.config/user-dirs.locale Unable to open /home/djf/.dbus/session-bus/5cf1f2eb5de5eb7933fc8c964aa0e4c9-0 Unable to open /home/djf/.cache/compizconfig/cubeaddon.pb Unable to open /home/djf/.cache/notify-osd.log Unable to open /home/djf/.cache/event-sound-cache.tdb.5cf1f2eb5de5eb7933fc8c964aa0e4c9.x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Unable to open /home/djf/.pulse/5cf1f2eb5de5eb7933fc8c964aa0e4c9-device-volumes.tdb Unable to open /home/djf/.pulse/5cf1f2eb5de5eb7933fc8c964aa0e4c9-card-database.tdb Unable to open /home/djf/.pulse/5cf1f2eb5de5eb7933fc8c964aa0e4c9-stream-volumes.tdb All of these files are owned by the user in question: d...@unicorn:~/bug$ ls -l /home/djf/.pulse-cookie -rw------- 1 djf djf 12288 2009-09-07 10:42 /home/djf/.pulse-cookie The files in gnupg were copied (cp $src $dest) from .gnupg Between discovering problem .gnupg files and running the script they started to behave - possibly due to running software-properties-gkt being run in that interval (?). As an example of the access error: d...@unicorn:~$ cat /home/djf/.config/compiz/compizconfig/config cat: /home/djf/.config/compiz/compizconfig/config: Input/output error dmesg gains another of these messages for each failed access: [87804.727437] Valid eCryptfs headers not found in file header region or xattr region [87804.727441] Either the lower file is not in a valid eCryptfs format, or the key could not be retrieved. Plaintext passthrough mode is not enabled; returning -EIO This may also explain why pulseaudio appears to be suffering (device manager says "connection refused", hence no sources or sinks). The machine has 2 1TB HDD configured as 3 x software raid 1: /dev/md0 == /boot (29.80 GB) ext2 /dev/md1 == encrypted swap (29.80 GB) /dev/md2 == LVM volume group vg00 /dev/mapper/vg00-root00 == / (29.80 GB) ext4 /dev/mapper/vg00-home00 == /home (29.80 GB) ext4, user directories encrypted. /dev/mapper/vg00-snap00 == /snap (29.80 GB) ext4 /dev/mapper/vg00-data00 == /data (782.51 GB) ext4 The encrypted home directory uses the default install, mount reports: /home/djf/.Private on /home/djf type ecryptfs (ecryptfs_sig=XXXXXX,ecryptfs_fnek_sig=XXXXXX,ecryptfs_cipher=aes,ecryptfs_key_bytes=16) _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ecryptfs Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ecryptfs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
