Well this is a little hard to explain but I'll try. Basically the NVIDIA proprietary driver is a black box that has access to the rest of the kernels memory (there is no protection between the kernel and the driver), and as the driver blob is not part of the kernel proper it can not be updated when kernel devs make a change. It can and does happen that for one reason or another (kernel bug, or a driver bug) strange interactions between the kernel and the proprietary driver can result in memory corruption that can affect other subsystems. This can be due to changes in kernel interfaces, memory maps, etc. In your case it appears to be affecting disk encryption, though to be honest the bug would like end up affecting something else if disk encryption was not being used.
>From the information posted we really can't tell where the bug is. It is possible the bug is in disk encryption, the kernel in general, or the NVIDIA driver. We need some oops text and more system information to even begin to evaluate what is causing this bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/674985 Title: hangs when saving files to encrypted hard drive -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
