More information: I used the "watch" command to, well, watch my ~/Private directory, along with tailing the syslog, and it unmounted when a cron job ran. Here are the syslog entries:
Sep 22 18:00:01 foo CRON[32362]: Mount of private directory return code [256] Sep 22 18:00:01 foo /USR/SBIN/CRON[32369]: (myusername) CMD (getmail --quiet) Sep 22 18:00:05 foo CRON[32362]: Mount of private directory return code [0] -- Ecryptfs Private Directory Randomly Unmounts https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259293 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs