Comment 56 for bug 372014

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William Hetherington (willwh) wrote : Re: errors in dmesg

Running Ubuntu (10.4) ext4 with ecryptfs - I was experiencing intermittent system hangs, with the following errors:

willwh@alba:~$ tail /var/log/messages
Oct 5 21:16:43 alba kernel: [ 79.277768] Either the lower file is not in a valid eCryptfs format, or the key could not be retrieved. Plaintext passthrough mode is not enabled; returning -EIO
Oct 5 21:16:43 alba kernel: [ 79.277784] Either the lower file is not in a valid eCryptfs format, or the key could not be retrieved. Plaintext passthrough mode is not enabled; returning -EIO

willwh@alba:~$ dmesg | tail
[ 193.731660] Either the lower file is not in a valid eCryptfs format, or the key could not be retrieved. Plaintext passthrough mode is not enabled; returning -EIO
[ 193.933541] Valid eCryptfs headers not found in file header region or xattr region

I removed Evolution in favour of thunderbird after installing, and after reviewing the comment from Sam Liddicott, thought this must be the issue!

Thankfully; mkdir .gnome2/evolution - I am no longer experiencing system hangs!