Dave,

Not sure I'll be able to clarify much for you.  Now that the install is
complete, I have no plans to retry until it's necessary.  Am reporting
the bug because I'm hoping to avoid potential issues in the future.

I don't think I did anything fancy.  I just installed Karmic from the CD
installer.  I found an option in one of the steps that allowed for
encrypted homes, so I enabled the option.  I don't remember after that
point when I was prompted for the passphrase.  It may have been during
the install itself, but more likely, as I'm gathering from other
sources, it was launched post-install by a notification window.  The
prompts weren't from a full-fledged GUI like GTK, but I don't remember
if it was a shell script or some kind of ad-hoc widget.

When I was prompted for the passphrase, I wondered if it would ask me to
confirm.  Since I wasn't sure, I was careful entering the passphrase,
but after hitting enter to accept the passphrase, I wasn't prompted to
verify.  I expected a second prompt to verify the passphrase entry (like
passwords are verified).

I feel like I'm repeating myself, so if there's something specific
you're looking for, please let me know, and I'll see if I remember.  If
you have a machine that you could set up to test this, then perhaps you
could actually reproduce this, as I don't think this is an intermittent
problem.  Based on bug 359997, I would venture to say that the issue
should be reproducible on a test install image by running the ecryptfs-
unwrap-passphrase script.

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