tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3822757291061444396.post8579658950885866782..comments2010-07-22T17:07:58.583-05:00Dustin Kirklandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12464590128908584782noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3822757291061444396.post-62741105008674957302010-07-22T17:07:58.583-05:002010-07-22T17:07:58.583-05:00Oh, I just read your notice on Launchpad. Will move my enquiry there.Albertonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3822757291061444396.post-18315933996980817652010-07-21T18:00:39.362-05:002010-07-21T18:00:39.362-05:00Hi Dustin,<br /><br />Apologies in advanced for posting this question here. You can definitely delete it after a few days have passed by.<br />I have decided to contact you because you seem to be a guru of Ubuntu, and -having read a previous post of you on the matter- I figured you could probably provide me with sensible answers.<br />Im not totally sure what happened last night on my Lucid, but somehow my gnome-power-manager broke-down, which meant I couldn&#39;t access the X-server.<br />I read a few pages of documentation through my Windows partition, but unfortunately nothing that was being said there solved my problem.<br />After a few hours of fiddling-around, I decided to reinstall an image, under a different username, with the idea to later copy the contents of home to my new home (as I dont want to have to re-do the whole look of the gnome environment).<br />But to my surprise (I didnt know this was happening until now), I realised that ubuntu has encrypted my content automatically, so that when I logged in under my new username I cannot access my previous home folder.<br />I read a bit about it and it says its been done through ecrypts, so I got in the process of manually mounting it to /home/myprevioususername/Private but it doesnt let me do it. Heres why:<br />if I use ecryptfs-add-passphrase --fnek and then <br />sudo ecryptfs-mount-private /home/myprevioususername/.Private /home/myprevioususername/Private<br /><br />I enter the login passphrase (when I first installed Lucid I remember getting a demand for a passphrase -I thought it was supposed to be the same as the login password so I duplicated it) and then it says<br />&quot;insterted auto tok with sig [digits&amp;letters] into the user session keyring&quot;, and then<br />&quot;fopen: no such file or directory&quot;<br /><br />ugh!<br /><br />I also tried the option<br />sudo mount -t ecryptfs /home/previoususername/.Private /home/prev.../Private<br />I go through the options and then it says<br />&quot;error mounting eCryptfs: [-2] No such file or directory&quot;<br />same error?<br /><br />Am I doing somethign wrong? Can I recover the data from my old username home folder?<br /><br />Thanks a mil!<br />Regards,<br />AlbertoAlbertohttp://members.ift.uam.es/palomoa/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3822757291061444396.post-5905901370728128222010-07-10T11:11:01.149-05:002010-07-10T11:11:01.149-05:00Incredibly useful! Thanks, Dustin.Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837206199805463418noreply@blogger.com