As reported by Stewart Prescott [1], this error is triggered when the system invokes pam-mount twice, which means that pam-mount tries to mount the volume twice as a result and the second time fails because the mount point is not empty.
Currently, this seems to be a bug of the default packaging rather than an user misconfiguration since even by resetting to default values via command pam-auth-update do not fix the situation. In Ubuntu 12.04 pam-mount is referenced in 3 files: common-auth common-session common-session-noninteractive and given that /etc/pam.d/sudo calls #%PAM-1.0 @include common-auth @include common-account @include common-session-noninteractive therefore pam-mount is called twice (common-auth and common- noninteractive) By removing (commenting out) the reference to pam-mount in "common- session-noninteractive" this error does not appear any more, without compromising any feature on non-server machines. By the way, in my case the exact same error referenced in this bug does not appear only with sudoedit, but also with sudo itself updated to the latest version 1.8.3p1-1ubuntu3.1 [1] http://nanonanonano.net/linux/debian/enchome ** Also affects: user-mounts Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/996806 Title: sudoedit triggers pam_mount to enquire the password of the encrypted partition, trying to mount it and later to umount it. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/user-mounts/+bug/996806/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
