Comment 2 for bug 495339

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.