Hi Duncan-
Thanks for the detailed bug report. Something strange is going on here.
I have an idea of what might have happened. Hopefully you can confirm.
With an encrypted home setup, your home directory has two different
"states"...mounted and unmounted.
When your $HOME is unmounted, it will have permissions 500, such that
you can't inadvertently write unencrypted data to $HOME. However, this
doesn't prevent root from writing data there.
Once your $HOME is mounted, you'll see that entry in your mount table.
And the permissions on $HOME will change to 700, such that your user can
read/write into that mountpoint.
>From the errors you're seeing, it looks to me like you copied the files
the kernel is complaining about into the mountpoint when your home
directory was *not* mounted, probably as root. Can you confirm or deny
this?
To establish the encrypted mount point, you need to first login as your
user, and then copy your existing data (like .gnupg) into $HOME.
:-Dustin
** Changed in: ecryptfs-utils (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
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Encrypted home directory file Input/output error
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/426272
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